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Whither SmallScript? (was Re: Integer micro-benchmarks)

Andrew Hunt andy at toolshed.com
Thu Apr 26 20:29:49 EDT 2001 
> Out of the dirth of scripting languages available,
> Python and PHP are at the top of our well-known candidate list. There are
> parties who have either expressed an interest in or are working on languages
> such as Scheme, JScript, and Basic.

Have you taken a look at Ruby? 

It's remarkably clean, dynamic, fully OO, and open source.  I find I can
wrote more code in Ruby faster, and with fewer errors, than any other
language I know (and I've tried quite a few).

For more info, try:

www.ruby-lang.org

and 

www.rubycentral.com


Enjoy!

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