From: Christopher Browne Date: 2002-08-25T13:01:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and Judy The world rejoiced as Lyle Johnson wrote: > Joseph McDonald wrote: >> Judy looks cool: http://www.sourcejudy.com/ docs at: >> http://www.sourcejudy.com/application/ >> I think it would be great to have a ruby interface to Judy. Someone >> has done a SWIG interface to Judy, pointer here: >> http://www.nclug.org/pipermail/nclug/2002-August/004079.html >> I've never used SWIG before, Lyle could probably whip it into shape >> faster than I could read the SWIG docs :-) > > I've actually been working on this already and should be able to post > something Sunday or Monday (just working through the test > cases). "Watch this space for further news ;" Seems _very_ interesting. I'd think it almost as sensible to consider throwing it in at a "lower" level than SWIG. The thing that concerns me is that there are some sections of the document where the authors document the design where they leave out some bits that seem to refer to possible patenting of pieces of the techniques. It would be fairly distressing to (for instance) make Ruby associative arrays into Judy arrays, only to discover that this makes any resultant code dependent on the good graces of HP's lawyers... -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.gultn@" "enworbbc")) http://cbbrowne.com/info/ "Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5." -- Andrew Tanenbaum, 1992.