From: Alan Moore <alan_moore@...>
Date: 2001-10-04T22:44:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22085] Re: Let's work on Windows support

Benoit Cerrina wrote:

>> I don't think JRuby is relevant to this thread.  I don't see how it could
>> ever be fast enough, for one thing.  I'm contributing to it, but I see it
>> mainly as a macro language for use in Java applications--and,
>> incidentally, a way for more people to discover Ruby. ;-)
>>
>> --Alan
>>
>It's relevant to the use of the CLR which is very similar to java although 
>slightly more flexible (but not that much, see the activeState articles on 
>their work on perl and python).

The equivalent of using the CLR would be to compile Ruby directly to 
Java bytecode.  That has been done with several other languages, 
including, I believe, Eiffel.  Might be interesting...


>By the way parrot is probably an excelent idea since it is meant for just
>languages as dynamic as ruby and it will have a GC.  But like you said this
>is long term stuff.
>Benoit

And the best part is that, like the Java VM, it will abstract away 
most of the platform-specific issues, so language developers can quit 
reinventing the wheel.

--Alan