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24 alternatives to The Changelog #202: 23 Years of Ruby with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
The origins of the Ruby programming language
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Changelog #202: 23 Years of Ruby with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
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