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		ricardobeat on July 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming lan... > Interpreted dynamic languages like Python, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby look the way they do because building such a language is the path of least resistance when you start from a simple parse tree. This looks... backwards?

stormbrew on July 19, 2016 [–]

Especially if you want to talk about ruby as a language with a simple parse tree.

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