From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-27T22:33:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26651] Vote in the current poll!

Hi,

Maybe Dave have already promoted the latest RubyGarden poll; I've missed
it so here goes:

Please vote in the RubyGarden poll on the max length of your Ruby
programs. I find it very interesting.

I'd like to know if people, like me, would like to push Ruby as not
only a script language but as a general programming language (sure we should 
have both but IMHO the latter use is currently more in focus). If people
are interested in this there would be, *hint*, more incentives to
investigate speeding up Ruby and producing binaries. I find it hard to
get a feel for how people use Ruby and how they would use it if it could
be compiled to reasonably fast binaries. 

Basically do you think there is a market for a Ruby compiler and binary
tools? (sure it would be great if its free but if one wants
commercial-grade stuff I think someone needs to pay a little; maybe
only companies?) Or would you be content with a faster interpreter? 

Can someone comment on how ActiveState entry to the Perl and Python
communities have affected them? Were they frowned upon? And do they
"work" commercially? Whats their model and is it good?

Sorry for the wealth of questions but its very interesting. Looking
forward to any of your thoughts...

Regards,

Robert