From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T22:43:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

Am Dienstag, 14. April 2009 12:51:11 schrieb Robert Dober:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> 
wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well so is the JVM, open source and run everywhere :). 

Hehe, depends on what exactly JVM means. The machine 
architecture? Or the emulator, which in case of Sun's JVM
is not open-source. OpenJDK seems to be open source, except a few binary 
plugs ("Not all of the source code that makes up the JDK is available 
under an open-source license") [1].

Run everywhere? Have you ever tried Java on DOS :). I remember running 
Ruby under DOS :). Okay lets agree on run everywhere, where everywhere 
means 95-99% of all machines.

Now, Ruby clearly runs more than everywhere, thanks to JRuby *g*.

Regards,

  Michael

[1]: http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/