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| | The Year In Scripting Languages Lua/Perl/Python/Ruby/Tcl 2002 |
 | | Among the factual successes are the organization of the Yet Another Perl Conferences [9], that will continue in 2003, and the funding of the Perl 6 core team through the Perl Foundation [10] (Perl 6 being the next major step in Perl, redesigned and reimplemented from the ground up). |
 | | Most of the improvements are to the standard library, including a new BerkeleyDB interface, a logging module styled after log4j, a family of new datetime types, a pair of set types, and a new random number generator (Mersenne Twister). |
 | | A number of new English language books, such as Ruby in a Nutshell (Yukihiro Matsumoto), Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days (Mark Slagell), The Ruby Way (Hal Fulton) and Ruby Developer's Guide (Michael Neumann, Robert Feldt and Lyle Johnson), were published this year. |
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