From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-07-13T06:06:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17756] Re: .Net, JVM and languages.


On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Erik B�gfors wrote:
> .Net has a virtual machine that several languages already supports (or
> will support soon).  Managed C++, Java Script, Eiffel, Component Pascal,
> APL, Cobol, Oberon, Perl, Python, Scheme, Smalltalk, Standard ML,
> Haskell, Mercury and Oberon.
> I would love to see ruby added to that list.  

I think Ruby for JVM is much more important, because the list of
JVM-enabled languages is about 10 times longer than the list of
DotNet-enabled languages; and the JVM certainly hundreds of times more in
use _now_ than DotNet (i prefer not trying to extrapolate). 

> My dream language is almost exactly like ruby but has the option of
> compiling to jvm, the .Net vm and binary code as well.  I know this is
> not really possible because some languages (like ruby) will be too
> dynamic (especially for binary-code).

Most likely (and as I said previously) it'll start off as an interpreter
written in Java and/or C#.

I maintain the following opinion: writing a good Ruby interpreter inside
Ruby first, and Ruby in Java second, would be easier than just Ruby in
Java; *and* results would be more incremental; *and* useful byproducts
would come out of it. 

matju