From: Paul Prescod <paulp@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T09:21:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23570] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Okay, so let's look at the chain that you're talking about:
> Jython->Java->JNI. Okay, Java->JNI does not give me warm fuzzies in the first
> place on Linux (our NAS is Linux-based, no big secret though never mentioned
> on any of our literature for marketing reasons). Jython->Java->JNI thus makes
> me even more nervous, because I have not attempted to use Jython in the past
> so I don't have any "warm fuzzies" about it.

That's fine. It's your business. I just wanted to know whether you had
any technical problems with Jython->JNI. Jython code is just Java code
expressed in another syntax so I would be pretty surprised if there are
any bridging issues. Also, one of the main Jython programmers uses JNI
heavily for things like Tkinter and getpid(). But anyhow, if you feel
like Ruby is more like Java then you should use it for prototyping Java
code.

 Paul Prescod