From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2007-01-19T05:11:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 2.0 joint Ruby/Perl/Python backend ?

At 10:15 PM +0900 1/18/07, surf wrote:
> At the back of the Nutshell book it mentions a possibilty of a joint
> backend of Ruby/Perl/Python.
>
>  Anyone ever heard much on that ? The really cool thing about that
> would be that might be that if you could get access to all the Perl
> stuff on CPAN and call it through Ruby then you could leverage that,
> otherwise Ruby developers would have to reinvent the wheel on that
> stuff and there is a ton of stuff available.

The Perl 6 back end is called Parrot (a Monty Python reference, FWIW).
An attempt is being made to create front ends for Python, Ruby, etc.
The Ruby front end is called Cardinal.  See:

   http://rubyforge.org/projects/cardinal/

Note that there are also efforts under way to run Ruby on top of the
Java Virtual Machine (JRuby) and .NET (e.g., NETRuby, Ruby.NET).

-r
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