From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T19:03:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23417] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

Paul Prescod wrote:
> >... It also makes a
> > superior language for prototyping Java applications, since many aspects
> > (iterators, rinda, single inheritance only, etc.) are similar to Java. 
> 
> I'm surprised to hear you say that. I would have thought that Python is
> a much better match for Java because you can code in Jython and then
> port bits over to Java incrementally. Python 2.2 has iterators, and may
> well have "rinda" (whatever that is!). Restricting yourself to single

I am sure Python will never have a "Rinda", because this stands for
"Ruby Linda" ;-)
Rinda or Linda are distributed tuplespaces.


Regards,

  Michael


-- 
Michael Neumann
merlin.zwo InfoDesign GmbH
http://www.merlin-zwo.de