[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:04268] Re: Content of the Perl6 talk

From: "Neil Hodgson" <neilh@...>
Date: 2000-07-30 01:27:39 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4268
> A comment on the hope for a common runtime: I think this will buy you
> less than you think.  ...

   A common runtime could at least produce a common library interface.
Wrapping each API once each for Perl, Tcl, Ruby and Python is a waste of
time. Some APIs will be difficult to wrap because of callbacks or threading
issues etc., but a lot are simple and could be wrapped generically.

   Maybe Mark Hammond's enthusiasm for .NET is partly a desire to never
again have to run SWIG over Microsoft's latest API changes. With .NET, all
the languages have access to all the libraries.

   A message covering related topics just appeared on c.l.ruby so they may
want to be included too.

   Neil



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