From: "Avdi B. Grimm" <avdi@...>
Date: 2001-10-08T03:03:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22205] Re: Let's work on Windows support

On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 09:01, Albert Wagner wrote:
> Furio,  Ruby is licensed in a way that allows YOU to modify it anyway you see 
> fit.  If you want to modify it to run on .NET then have at it.  Just please 
> stop trying to convince others to do it for you.  And please don't call the 
> end result "Ruby".

If it will execute any program that will execute on Matz's interpreter,
why on earth should it /not/ be called Ruby?  Should JRuby be changed to
"Amethyst" because it's not Matz's One True interpreter?  How does
porting the interpreter to a new platform cause it to be a new language?

FWIW, I wish I knew more than jack-squat about coding compilers, 'cause
then I'd do my best to help out with a .NET port. I pretty much detest
MS, it's products and behaviour; but it's clear to me that without such
an interpreter, I have a vastly smaller chance of ever being able to use
Ruby for serious work in a corporate environment.  And that makes me
sad.

~Avdi