From: Phil Date: 2007-10-22T14:02:28+09:00 Subject: Re: IronRuby...will it be like J++? > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:news@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Thufir > Sent: Montag, 22. Oktober 2007 06:12 > To: ruby-talk ML > Subject: IronRuby...will it be like J++? > > Could it be that Microsoft won't fully implement the language > specifications, a la the J++ versus Java scenario? I doubt, that Matz will sue Microsoft, like Sun did with MS (that's why J++/J# is stuck on Java 1.2, IIRC). > What are some potential issues down the road? It seems that the > license > is BSD-like, which sounds good, surprisingly open for Microsoft. Probably the same, as with using Java as a language (or writing additional interpreters/VMs for Ruby): fragmentation of resources. Bu that remains to be seen. Given, that the MSPL is the old BSD license (which included an attribution clause, also), IronRuby could be forked, if MS started to misbehave. > It would be neat to develop a script in Linux which runs fine in > IronRuby, but that sounds too good to be true :( As it is with Windows or Java, or the different UNIX-flavors. -- Phillip Gawlowski