From: Friedrich Dominicus <frido@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T18:41:47+09:00
Subject: Re: What New Language After Ruby?

Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com> writes:

> Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
> > I don't buy that. Especiall not the Java argument. Java is usually
> > among the slowest languages and ther does exist a market for "native"
> > Java compilers not for nothing.
> 
> Tow questions:
> 
> (1) is Ruby faster than Java? (I don't have special GUI requirements. 
> Console-based programming.)
Find out for yourself on http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
Sometimes Ruby is smaller sometimes Java.

> 
> (2) how feasible is a Java to Ruby conversion?
Java to Ruby seems to me easy and straigforward but probably not the
other way round. 

have nice day hacking away Ruby
Friedrich