From: "Zed A. Shaw" Date: 2006-09-25T18:45:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Sun Takes on On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:27:42 +0900 "Giles Bowkett" wrote: > I've read Charles' posts many times. The JRuby project is pretty cool. > Wish I had the chops to put something like that together. Congrats. > Oh yeah, for sureness JRuby is very cool. If you actually are interested in learning how to do this then check out: http://www.amazon.com/Building-Parsers-Java-Steven-Metsker/dp/0201719622/sr=8-17/qid=1159177289/ref=sr_1_17/102-2347842-4438503 and http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Processors-Java-Interpreters/dp/0130257869/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/102-2347842-4438503?ie=UTF8 Both are very soft introductions to making full parsers and languages to run on the JVM. But c'mon, you just *know* Sun is gonna slap a few extra version numbers on that thing and push it to the Enterprise crowd. They can't resist. It's in their nature and for whatever reason sells things like meth hotcakes for them. -- Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help.