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Mirah, Ruby Syntax on the JVM (Tuesday, March 29, 2011) - Although languages like Java and C# have soured with me over the last few years I still believe their runtimes (the JVM and CLR respectively) are sound. A sizable portion of the code I write for my day job is in JRuby. We get a number of advantages from that. We can use the industrial-strength infrastructure components Java brings to the table and leverage mountains