From: micathom Date: 2007-01-19T00:50:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby 2.0 joint Ruby/Perl/Python backend ? > s/Perl/Java/ and you have Java, JRuby and Jython running on the Java > Virtual Machine. I think there is a difference between having an interpreter running in the jvm running ruby code or ruby source code being translated/compiled to bytecode running in a vm (maybe using a JIT compiler) -- and the jvm is AFAIK rather java centric.