From: chad fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2001-09-19T12:24:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21372] Re: [Ann] JRuby - Ruby interpreter in Java


--- Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Jan Arne Petersen <japetersen@web.de> wrote:
> > JRuby is the effort to recreate the Ruby
> interpreter in
> Java.
> 
> Excellent. Someday perhaps I would port it to C++.
> 
> > JRuby supports at the time:
> > 	- builtin classes (supported methods [1])
> > 		* Array (no methods)
> ...
> 
> Are you implementing as much in Ruby as possible? It
> would
> be great if you could, 1) because it would probably
> go
> faster and be easier to maintain, and 2) because
> other Ruby
> ports could reuse those parts.
> 
> Kevin
> 

Great stuff!  I've been looking through the code.  I
hope to contribute some of the unfinished material. 
To Kevin's point, be sure to check out Matju's
MetaRuby.  

Are you coming to RubyConf2001?

Chad

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