From: rstephens@... (Ron Stephens)
Date: 2004-07-17T12:27:14+09:00
Subject: Re: scripting language (fwd)

Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<5d4c6124040715163445c0fa21@mail.gmail.com>...
> This may sound heretical on a Ruby mailing list, but it sounds like
> what they need is *not* Ruby. If they're a Java shop, and are using
> backends (Oracle, LDAP) which are already well-supported on the Java
> platform, it seems like investing heavily in a C-based language
> runtime probably won't be in their best interests.
> 
> I second the earlier recommendation to consider Groovy, and think
> JRuby could work as well.
> 
> Lennon

I'd suggest taking a look at jython. 

Ron Stephens
http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html