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15th June 2008 - Link Blog

Spicing Up Embedded JavaScript. John Resig collects the various ways in which a JavaScript interpreter can be hosted by Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby and Java. There are full JS implementations in PHP, Perl and Java; Ruby and Python both have modules that use an embedded SpiderMonkey.

Posted 15th June 2008 at 11:32 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 15th June 2008.

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