From: Jamis Buck Date: 2004-07-26T13:34:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Which compiled language is closest to Ruby? Michael Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 05:29:03 +0900, tony summerfelt > 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) I believe he is referring to the size of the .NET runtime, which must be installed in order to run the 3700 byte "hello world" app. The same story goes for any Java application, however, but no one really complains about that since Java is everywhere nowadays. And as more and more Windows systems get auto-updated to include the .NET runtimes, the ubiquity of .NET applications will increase, to the world's betterment or detriment, depending on who you ask. :) -- Jamis Buck jgb3@email.byu.edu http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."