- FFI for Ruby Now Available | JavaWorld's Daily Brew – "FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. FFI has been implemented in various libraries; one of them, libffi, actually serves as the core of JNA, allowing Java code to load and call arbitrary C libraries. libffi allows code to load a library by name, retrieve a pointer to a function within that library, and invoke it, all without static bindings, header files, or any compile phase. In order to address a need early in Rubinius's dev cycle, Evan Phoenix came up with an FFI library for Rubinius, wrapping the functionality of libffi in a friendly Ruby DSL-like API."
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- Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows – now Open Source – "A while back, I released Apple I BASIC and Commodore BASIC as a scripting language for Mac OS X 10.5 on Intel. It did not work on any other OS or on a different CPU type. Today, we are releasing Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language – it works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 (Intel and PowerPC), and you even get the source, so you can adapt it to other operating systems and CPUs."
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