From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T17:23:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:11:58 +0900
Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:

> Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> > Well I'll concede that the JVM does have a few things going for it,
> > but I never was entirely comfortable with having my code tightly
> > coupled to it.
> 
> When you're writing in Ruby, your programs are tightly coupled to the 
> Ruby interpreter. Why is that better than having a program coupled to 
> the JVM?

Ruby is open-source. Ruby runs everywhere.

Regards,

  Michael