Ruby 1.9

Migrating to

Bruce Williams

Rubyist since 2001

Open source developer, contributer, technical editor, designer

Occasionally

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(Full-time since 2005)

Perpetrator of much random Ruby hackery, language tourist

Stable. The syntax and languagefeatures you know andprobably love. The performance proﬁleyou know and might hatea little.

Unstable, transitional.Many new syntax andlanguage features.Better performance,especially for computationallyintensive operations.

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Migrating To Ruby 1.9

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