From: Charles Hixson Date: 2000-07-07T08:32:33-07:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:03895] Re: JRuby? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EE34C6FA5C4094D99C476583 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Conrad Schneiker wrote: > Hi > > Charles Hixson wrote: > > > "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? > > Well, I'm sure Java has all sorts of other goodies people would like to use. > There is one big gotcha (not counting the underlying implementation and > ... > -- > Conrad Schneiker > (This note is unofficial and subject to improvement without notice.) I'm sure that there ARE all sorts of nice things. But most of them are also available in c. What I was thinking of are features that Java has that an application might *need*, and which weren't available in Ruby or c. I.e., reasons to pay the cost of having an interpreted interpreter (pretty high cost, but sometimes necessary [just consider what microcode is, after all]). --------------EE34C6FA5C4094D99C476583 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="charleshixsn.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Charles Hixson Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="charleshixsn.vcf" begin:vcard n:Hixson;Charles x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:charleshixson@earthling.net fn:Charles Hixson end:vcard --------------EE34C6FA5C4094D99C476583--