From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-07-29T01:51:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Ruby in embedded applications

In article <42E898F4.2050200@it.fts-vn.com>,
Kev Jackson  <kevin.jackson@it.fts-vn.com> wrote:
>We've just got an embedded project involving C + RTL? (some kind of 
>FPGA/ASIC definition language), and SWIG.  I've convinced the people 
>involved that C will be fine for low-level stuff, but for the 
>application logic we should use a high-level language to minimize our 
>effort (memory management etc).  I'm pretty sure that we'll be using 
>ruby (project lead is a fan of Why's guide).  As for why we chose/are 
>considering ruby - no compilation (we're both sick of that damn compile 
>phase), support from SWIG interfaces, easily interface with C libraries 
>etc, clean OO.
>

This sounds really interesting - are you at liberty to provide more 
details?

Reading between the lines of your post: It would seem that you're 
developing an ASIC or FPGA with an embedded CPU and then you plan to run 
the Ruby interpreter on that CPU?

Phil