From: baalbek <rcs@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T09:41:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Building a REPL for Ruby

Shalev NessAiver wrote:
> I think his point is to see how easy it is to see how well ruby  
> interoperates with other languages.

 > Only thing is he called
> me a VBStudio scripter when I said I
> used rails, which annoyed me enough to start thinking about this in  the 
> first place :)

Well, for what it's worth: I'm a former Pythonista, now a 100% Rubyist.

I have recently integrated a C++ financial/statistical application as a 
Ruby extension (DLL) using swig, and I did it with writing a simple four 
line script, and modifying a makefile a couple of places!

The easiest thing in the world!

Now, I have also formerly written Python extensions in C, and it was not 
a walk in the park!

Tell your 'friend' that Ruby is just a much better designed language (I 
would know, having used Python for several years), and integrating Ruby 
with C/C++ is a breeze!

Baalbek