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27th April 2008 - Link Blog

Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls. Charles Nutter’s detailed and opinionated overview of the state of twelve different Ruby implementations (six of which are covered in detail).

Posted 27th April 2008 at 2:18 pm

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