From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-09-14T17:39:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for .NET


"Arich Chanachai" <macrocosm@fastmail.fm> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:SvadnfGcQdnTptvcRVn-jA@comcast.com...
> A few questions for the Ruby community:
>
> 1. Does anyone know of a project that is implementing Ruby on the
> .NET/Mono platform?
> 2. Do tools exist to port Python code to Ruby and vice versa?

I'm not sure.  There were discussions about this issue recently.  Maybe
you can find a project here
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/

> 3. Does a Ruby compiler exist similar to the python compiler for Java
> (Jython)?

Not exactly but there is Groovy - if you need the looks of Ruby and the
speed of Java.  See http://groovy.codehaus.org/

> 4. How easy is it to interface Ruby to C/C++ class libraries?

Quite easy AFAIK.  See
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ext_ruby.html

Kind regards

    robert