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One of the largest problems plaguing Ruby implementations (and plaguing some other language implementations, so I hear from my Pythonista friends) is the ever-painful story of “extensions”. In general ...

Do you folks prefer to work with a packaged CPAN module/ Ruby Gem / whatever, or just install the basic package and handle anything else you need outside the package management? Seems like the ...

Perl, Python, and Ruby modules can ease development for large projects, but Bash is simpler and better for many tasks Last week I talked a bit about how best to protect against the vagaries of human ...