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jamesbritt on April 22, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why aren’t you contributing (To Python)?

"For me, with Ruby, it's that I only know Ruby. I don't know the underlying C."

Most of the standard library is written in Ruby, and my guess is that there are things in there that could use some love.

algorias on April 22, 2010 | [–]

Python is in the same boat, by the way. Core is writen in C, but there's a huge number of things to be done in the stdlib.

krainboltgreene on April 23, 2010 | [–]

Wow, really? Then I'll have to check it out, thanks!

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