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Ruby 1.9.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the facetnating dept.

sciurus0 writes "The 1.9.0 development version of the Ruby programming language has been released. This version has many changes, including a new virtual machine that provides great speed improvements."

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  1. FFI by r6144 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Back then Ruby's C interface appeared much easier to use than Python's reference-counting mess (I don't know about recent developments). Apart from that, both are good as far as scripting languages go.

  2. Re:Firehose blurp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't complain! The editors might try to edit it, and then we'll really be hosed.