From: "Ball, Donald A Jr (Library)" <donald.ball@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T04:54:27+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby...will it be like J++?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Donald [mailto:gdonald@gmail.com] 
> 
> On 10/23/07, John Lam (DLR) <jflam@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > It is absolutely our intention to enable Rails running on 
> IronRuby. If 
> > Rails doesn't run, how could our implementation be 
> considered a compatible implementation?
> 
> Why not contribute to the existing Ruby project instead?  
> That's how _real_ open source development is done.  Making a 
> M$ version of Ruby doesn't help Ruby much at all.

I rather disagree. Competing language implementations help clarify
ambiguous specifications and behavior. It also may be the case that
implementations targetting the CLR or the JVM have benefits over the
existing interpreter for some customers.

- donald