From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2004-07-26T13:23:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Which compiled language is closest to Ruby?

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 05:29:03 +0900, tony summerfelt
<snowzone5@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:02:22 +0900, you wrote:
> 
> >For a fully object oriented compiled language you might want to take a
> >look at Eiffel.
> 
> the windows version is a 60+ meg download...and i think it mentioned
> it was for .net...that's another 100meg download
> 
> i haven't bought into a 100meg 'hello world' program quite yet :)

Not sure where you're getting some of those numbers, but a
console-based .NET "hello world" on my system is 3700 bytes.  (+/- 50
bytes)

It, of course, runs fast enough that I couldn't get a memory footprint
snapshot while it ran, however.