From: Anders Bengtsson Date: 2002-08-26T22:55:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Distributed Object Container Gavin Sinclair wrote: > This is why I say to myself: Java is a good environment; it needs a good > language. > > And it can't really be done in Ruby. My hope is than within two years Ruby > code can be compiled into JVM byte-code (via Parrot?) so that the J2EE platform > can be used in Ruby, Python, Perl, ... Compiled Ruby would remove one major benefit with Ruby, its dynamic nature. However, interpreted Ruby within a JVM is already a reality, although still in beta, see http://jruby.sourceforge.net/. We hope to have some kind of Java bytecode generation in the future. /Anders -- A n d e r s B e n g t s s o n | ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se Stockholm, Sweden | _____________________________________________________ Gratis e-mail resten av livet p� www.yahoo.se/mail Busenkelt!