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theseoafs on Sept 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: C for Rubyists

I really dislike that this teaches you how to use the Ruby virtual machine in C rather than just C itself. If you tried to hop from this over to a real, true C project, you would be totally lost, which isn't what you want from a tutorial.

zem on Sept 30, 2014 [–]

there are tons of general purpose c tutorials out there; this one is specifically for rubyists looking to learn how to write extensions in c

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