From: Tim Roberts <timr@...>
Date: 2011-01-15T13:55:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is interpreted and scripting language?

Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote:
>
>Tim Roberts wrote in post #974545:
>> The most popular Ruby implementations are interpreted,
>> but there is nothing that would prevent it from being compiled.
>
>Surely you can't ultimately compile Ruby? The essence of it is it is
>dynamic so you don't know what the code will be until the point of
>execution?

There already are Python compilers, and I would assert that Ruby contains
no fundamentally different concepts.

IronRuby is compiled, although admittedly in two steps.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.