From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-04-21T02:31:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on .NET?

In article <1019301781.7248.1.camel@stargrazer>,
Sean Middleditch  <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 04:45, Tobias Reif wrote:
>> Sean Middleditch wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > Sure, like Ruby programmers are into, there are lots of *niftier* things
>> > that could've been done instead of C#, but would there truly have been
>> > an advantage whatsoever?
>> 
>> 
>> I must misunderstand you, but if Ruby offers no advantage over C#, why 
>> are you using Ruby?
>
>Ruby does offer advantages, just not in the areas C# is strong.  For
>example, it's been stated here before that RUby can't be JIT'd like C#
>cn, for various reasons.

Why not?  The Parrot VM has JIT and we're planning a Ruby frontend to 
Parrot - we should get a significant speed boost from doing this partially 
due to Parrot's JIT capabilities.

Now if you're talking about JIT in the context of .NET that's probably a 
different story.  .NET seems to be not well suited for dynamic languages.

Phil