From: Igor Karpov <jc@...>
Date: 2002-07-26T19:59:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Opinion on Ruby maturity, the missing things

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 07:31:22PM +0900, Paul E.C. Melis wrote:
[dd]
> You probably wouldn't have mentioned this if I had been clearer in the
> original post. I have _never_ seen an application that has Perl embedded in
> it. 

Exim (http://www.exim.org) has optional an embedded Perl interpreter.

Quoting:
"... embedded Perl interpreter, which allows Perl subroutines to be called
during string expansion."

On other hand, Vim (http://www.vim.org) has optional Ruby interpreter.

Quoting again:

"Vi IMproved version 6 with embedded Ruby interpreter"

> Perl scripts are distributed frequently with apps, but they are almost
> always stand-alone or use a pipe or socket to talk to the main application.
> And I have also never seen a bytecode compiled version of Perl script, but
> this should change with version 6 and Parrot coming up.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
> 
Regards,
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