From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-02-19T10:14:33+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby and .NET



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benoit Cerrina [mailto:benoit.cerrina@writeme.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:18 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
> Subject: Re: Ruby and .NET
>
>
>
> > Ruby is a language who's execution engine is in C...and can be
> bound into
> > .NET in similar ways that the Ruby WIN32OLE library connects you to COM
> and
> > OLE (remember COM and OLE...those are the other technologies
> that preceded
> > .NET that were going to revolutionize the way everyone would
> write code ;)
> didn't they?
> did you look at mozillas code?  It is COM.
> did you look at gnome bonobo?  It is COM once again.
> and I know of at least a couple of huge applications (millions of lines of
> code)
> which work on unix and NT which are done in a cross platform
> variant of COM.
> Benoit

Um...for as many apps that are written to use COM and OLE, there a many,
many more that do not.  What about apache, jboss, weblogic, websphere and
the n-thousands of other applications that do not use COM/OLE?

BTW:  I think that COM and OLE did dramatically effect code on Win32...my
point is everyone who uses COM and OLE are not going to throw that code away
to replace it with C#-based stuff for exactly the reason that they are
"millions of lines of code" :)

Rich