From: "Stephan J. Schmidt" Date: 2002-05-01T00:49:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Slashdot review of Ruby Developers Guide hi, Introduce jRuby for scripting your java applications. Then the frst step is done. bye -stephan On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:47, A Bull in the China Shop of Life wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2002 james@rubyxml.com wrote: > > > > A quick glance over the reader comments reveals that the /. crowd has > > progressed past the "why do we need another language?" mindset. > > > > James > > Ruby has gotten a LOT of good press of late. > > I wish I could find an excuse to use it at work but we're a 100% Java shop > so I'm not sure it'll fly :) > > -Chris > (Been learning/using Java of late - boy do I wish Java had Ruby's modules! > You have to do the whole interface/adapter dance to get mixins in Java.) >