From: Victor Reyes Date: 2007-09-28T20:09:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Anyone interested In IronRuby ------=_Part_227_32050967.1190977730853 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Although I am a Ruby apprentice and had not contributed anything other than spreading the words about Ruby, I agree 1000% with Rikard. Microsoft is like a symbiotic parasite that eats and eats until the host is completely gone! I still remember back on the '80s when MS robbed a small company I think name Stacker, of their only way of making money. It was a compression software (back when a 20MB HD was a luxurious) for DOS. Later they robbed Internet Explorer from one guy (not even a company, but from one guy). I can probably fill couple pages with the name of stolen software component= s that made Bill Gate and MS billionaire! I only use any MS product when I am forced to do so. Ah one more thing, it does not bother me when people around the world run pirate copies of MS software. There is a Spanish say that states: "Ladr=F3n que le roba a otro ladr=F3n t= iene 100 a=F1os de perd=F3n", badly translated, without any rhyme, to English: "= A thief that stills from another thief deserves 100 years of pardon" Oh well! On 9/27/07, Rikard Lindby wrote: > > Is IronRuby just like Ruby except you get the .Net platform? > > If not, has MS contributed anything of what they have done to > "improve" the language to the ruby community? > > Or If it is just like ruby + .Net, why didnt MS work with the > community to make the .Net stuff an extension to the real ruby, > instead of taking from the community and locking it to their platform? > > Is this history repeating itself ? We don't like java because it is > controlled by sun. We cant make any money from it so lets take all the > good ideas sun has worked out do some improvements and call it our > own. (C#) > Or is it like... the list goes on and on. > > > Sorry about my grumpy attitude towards MS, but over the years I have > seen so much foul play from that company, so sometimes I feel the need > to cry out :) > > On 9/28/07, Phrogz wrote: > > On Sep 26, 11:47 pm, IronRuby wrote: > > > I would like to know, how many folks here are waiting to start with > > > IronRuby and how many have already implemented this in one or another > > > way. > > > > I'm currently involved in the design of a large C# application > > developed by my company, which is fully scriptable (currently) in > > IronPython. As a strong Ruby advocate, I plan to fully support > > IronRuby as well as soon as the DLR is released and feeling solid. > > > > > > > > ------=_Part_227_32050967.1190977730853--