From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-07-17T15:13:14+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04082] Re: What are you using Ruby for?


> algorithms mostly written in C and C++ into a Ruby framework. 
> ...
> find it an ideal "glue" language. It's OO nature forces/helps 
> me to get a
> basic design "right" but I can still use old code by 
> integrating using the
> Ruby/C/C++ interface. 

I'm very interested to listen you when you've some insights to share about
using Ruby as a prototype language (to get a basic desing "right", as you
said, or maybe you didn't mean this). Especially the point when you convert
part of the Ruby code to C(++/# :). I'm eager to see if you (have to) use
your proto as a throw-away code or more as a hacked-together framework,
which is then speeded up part by part.

	- Aleksi