From: "James Britt (ruby-talk ML)" <ruby@...>
Date: 2001-12-02T07:51:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27228] Ruby chosen as scripting language for Midgard

While reading the often amusing comments on Slashdot following Matz interview, I came across one saying Ruby has been picked as the
scripting language for Midgard, a web-based content management tool.  Here's a URL with more details:

http://www.midgard-project.org/news/mws/MWS%2064%3AScripting%2CNew%20Development%2CNemein%2CPhp%20International.html


If that URL is too long for some e-mail readers, go here and search on Ruby:
http://www.midgard-project.org/search/

Here's a nice quote:

<quote type='nice' src='That long URL above'>
There is an e-mail from Emile on the list archive which sums up his reasoning for choosing Ruby as well as an "RFC: Midgard
Scripting Core". The RFC says, in part;


[The] Scripting core is aimed to expose high-level view of the data storage to a scripting language. It seemed most convenient to
implement that high-level view in a scripting language, only dealing with C where we absolutely have to.

Scripting core language should conform following requirements:

   * Fit for embedding (obviously)Real garbage collection. We've suffered PHPs reference counting long enough. This disqualifies
Python and the Javascript engine from Mozilla, for example.
   * Tolerable footprint and speed
   * A decent OO system with introspection from C (we will use this to bridge functions and methods into PHP)
   * Thread-safe or planned to be thread-safe, for whenever Apache 2.0 and PHP4 are stable enough to mandate us to go there too. Not
a short-term goal, in other words.
Easy to extend in C

</quote>

James