From: Richard Dale <Richard_Dale@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T06:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Benchmark Mono - Ruby

Eric Hodel wrote:

>> I've read that the Iron Python guy that Microsoft hired, is pleased
>> with the
>> progress he has made, and last I heard he was tackling the problem of
>> static methods, being static. But to me, that doesn't mean that the
>> CLI was
>> designed for dynamic languages, or that it's a particularly good place
>> to
>> start.
> 
> If that guy is having so many problems, porting Ruby to C to interact
> with C libraries will be impossible!
There are different ways of interfacing languages to each other. You can
certainly define a procedural api in C, such as the ruby one, to interface
to an OO language. And a very nice easy to use api it is too.

It doesn't mean you can define a common object oriented type system between
ruby and C (or C#), embodied in something like the CLR, so you don't need
that procedural api to interface between languages. You might have a common
string type used in both ruby and C, and then you wouldn't need to use
rb_str_new() and StringValuePtr() anymore.

-- Richard