Acknowledgments

As all people who set out to write a book inevitably discover, it is always harder than you expect. Even if you expect it to be hard, it will be even harder. (This is an instance of Hofstadter's Law, which says that something of complexity will always take more time than you expect, even if you take into account this law.) I find this very true. I have spent enormous amounts of time on it, and many people have helped me out during that time. I would like to thank them here.

First of all, thanks to Charles O Nutter and Thomas Enebo of the JRuby core team for giving me the chance to contribute to JRuby in the way I've done, and for always putting up with last-minute changes I've pushed into JRuby to correct information in this ...

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