From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-06-22T02:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Java


"Mark Probert" <probertm@acm.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:200506210823.30148.probertm@acm.org...
> Hi ..
>
> On Tuesday 21 June 2005 07:45, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Jean-Claude Arbaut wrote:
>> > On 21/06/2005 15:12, Wayne Pierce wrote:
>> >> I have a vendor product with Java APIs that I need to write against
>> >> and would like to use Ruby.
>> >>
>>
>> I'd use plain old Java.  That'll be much more hassle free and Java isn't
>> too bad IMHO.
>>
>
> Some of the other options than using POJ are:
>
>  Scala -- http://scala.epfl.ch/
>  Nice  -- http://nice.sourceforge.net/
>
> Both of these are built on the JVM and use the JRE.  With all respect to 
> Ruby,
> I have used both when in a Java environment rather than force Ruby into a
> place where it is best not to go.

That's a good suggestion!  Then we should mention groovy also which has some 
similarities with Ruby.  However, the last time I looked at it it was still 
immature and also terribly slow...

http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Kind regards

    robert