From: Greg Donald <gdonald@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T06:02:17+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby...will it be like J++?

On 10/23/07, Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) <donald.ball@nashville.gov> wrote:
> I rather disagree. Competing language implementations help clarify
> ambiguous specifications and behavior.

What ambiguous specifications and behaviour would those be exactly?
Ruby doesn't have a formal spec that I'm aware of.  And don't point to
that PHP-based wiki thing either because most of the links there lead
to non-existent pages.

> It also may be the case that
> implementations targetting the CLR or the JVM have benefits over the
> existing interpreter for some customers.

Customers?  As far as I know Ruby is free so there are no customers.


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