From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2000-07-06T16:47:44+00:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03881] Re: JRuby?

"Conrad Schneiker" wrote:
> 
> ...
> That's only a good reason if you really need something like that. As Perl
> has shown, there is an enormous amount of work out there that doesn't (not
> to mention an enormous amount of work that would be better done in Ruby :-)
> 
> But if you think you really need it, the first question should be, what do
> you want to accomplish?
> ...
> 
A fair question.  Java has portable gui's.  Not perfect, but pretty 
good.  Java is embeddable in web pages for "safely" ??downloading.  Java 
has support for threading (ok, that's probably a pretty temporary 
advantage).  Anything else?