From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-09-06T15:22:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Who's Charles angry at?


From: "Joshua Ballanco" <jballanc@gmail.com>
>
> As someone mentioned in the comments on your blog, I think the 
> root source of the difference between how Jython and JRuby are regarded 
> is that there is no risk of Jython ever supplanting Python. If Jython 
> strays too far, it's simply not a Python implementation any longer. Ruby 
> really has no concrete way of saying "this is Ruby" or "this is not 
> Ruby".

My feeling as a lurker on ruby-core, is that all implementations (and
implementors) so far honor matz as the final authority, benevolent
dictator, and lead designer of the ruby language.

Has anyone observed evidence to the contrary?


Regards,

Bill