From: "Jörg W Mittag" <Joerg.Mittag@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T01:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: What's in YOUR Ruby???  Could Ruby ever be a g.p. dev language?

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> CodeToad wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> I just finished my first 40+ hours with plain old Ruby (without rails
>> for now), and I love this stuff!!  Everyone relates it to smalltalk,
>> and that seems mostly true.
>> 
>> Being a Certified Old Dude (and sometimes a quant-heavy economist), it
>> does remind me of the pleasurable experience of learning serious
>> programming tripping along with smalltalk on one end and various lisp
>> incarnations on the other, circa xerox/parc days.  So...
[...]
>> How about ruby with a big, bad oo-database like Objectivity?
> Never heard of it.

GemStone is going to port their kick-ass distributed, clustered,
transparent, orthogonal, object-persistance layer / object database
GemStone/S from Smalltalk to Rubinius (GemStone/R, anyone?), once
Rubinius hits 1.0 (December this year). That's looking to be *very*
interesting: <http://www.gemstone.com/products/smalltalk/>

jwm