From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T00:07:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Distributed Object Container


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anders Bengtsson" <ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se>

> 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.

I hope to try JRuby in the not-too-distant-future.

Would Java bytecode generation preclude the dynamic nature?

> /Anders
> --

Gavin