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Okay, something finally snapped and it's time to give up Perl and learn a better scripting language. The two that I have under consideration are Ruby and Python although other suggestions are ...

The rumors about the demise of Ruby have been circulating the developer world for years and articles prophesying the “death” of Ruby appear with amazing regularity. Yet, the language and its main ...

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Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel processing ...