[markburns]

For anyone interested, he points to an older translation of the Ruby Hacking Guide, there is a pretty much complete translation at

http://ruby-hacking-guide.github.com

[alecdbrooks]

Thanks for the link! I'm not interested in Ruby per se, but it's fascinating nonetheless from the perspective of data structures and how they are implemented in C.

On a related note, I've found a much less comprehensive (but still useful) guide to Python internals: http://tech.blog.aknin.name/category/my-projects/pythons-inn....