From: "Paul E.C. Melis" <paul@...>
Date: 2002-07-27T03:52:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Opinion on Ruby maturity, the missing things

"Igor Karpov" <jc@minjust.gov.ua> wrote in message
news:20020726105836.GV79354@key.minjust.gov.ua...
> 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.

Well, that's the first time I heard about it. Did some searching on
Freshmeat, and yes, there's more projects, but not many.

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

Right, that was done by one of the developers of Ruby (Shugo Maeda). Note
however, that he knows - and uses - internal Ruby stuff that is nowhere to
be found in the documentation (e.g. usage of ruby_init_loadpath() and
rb_eval_string_protect()).

My point being that, yes Ruby (and Perl) is being used in some cases as an
embedded language, but that's not because in those instances people simply
picked up the documentation and started hacking. There simply is not enough
information available in the docs for that.

Regards,
Paul