From: avdi@... (Avdi B. Grimm)
Date: 2002-09-13T21:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyInline 1.0.4 Released! (fwd)

Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk> writes:

> .... Especially if "legacy Perl code" includes CPAN ;-)

Heretic!  Don't you know that every wheel must be completely
reinvented in every new language?  To do otherwise wouldn't be
"pure".  And everyone knows that "reuse" is just a meaningless
buzzword those addled OO-zealots like to throw around.  

(yes, I'm a little annoyed.  There seems to be a popular attitude that
it's better to put energy towards rewriting every useful library in
Ruby, rather than towards making Ruby more inter-operable.  Those who
suggest this apparently have an infinite amount of time, and are
infallible to the point of never making the same mistakes the original
implementors made.  ::grumble::)

I say Ruby::Inline is a great idea, and I hope it is extended to other
languages.  As a matter of fact, IIRC the original writer of
Perl::Inline commented that having a Perl::Inline::Ruby module was a bit
bass-ackward, since it made more sense to be able to include legacy
Perl code in Ruby! :-)

~Avdi