From: Franz GEIGER <fgeiger@...>
Date: 2000-09-15T16:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4926] Some q's to Ruby professionals

Ruby seems to me the FIRST language that REALLY took all the best from all
other languages. Seems to be well thought.

As I encountered the language two days ago (in a Perl newsgroup!) I have a
few questions. I ask them sorted by importance:

1) Is there a visual debugger for Ruby like there is for Perl and Python
(Pythonwin)?

2) When will books be available? Take alle the good Perl books from O Reilly
or the Quick Python Reference as examples.

3) Are there other GUI bindings than Tk like wxWindows etc.?

4) What about freezers? Are there any? One for Windows NT?

5) Will there ever be a JRuby (i.e. Ruby for Java) to be able to run Ruby
scripts on almost every platform on this world? (I am especially interested
in EPOC. I know several programming languages but don't want to learn the
programming models of all platforms in this world.)

6) Perl is currently rewritten. Shouldn't there be efforts to go into Ruby's
direction? Or taken this way round: Shouldn't Rubyists offer support to the
Perl6 crew?
I ask this because I heard that Perl6 will contain elements of Python and
Ruby contain elements of both, doesn't it?

Thanks in advance and
best regards
Franz GEIGER