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5th May 2008 - Link Blog

Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places). In a characteristic stroke of genius, _why makes a solid initial attempt at compiling Ruby 1.9 source to Python 2.5 bytecode.

Posted 5th May 2008 at 10:13 pm

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