From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T13:54:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby interpreters for different platforms

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@cs.utexas.edu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Ruby interpreters for different platforms


> Okay guys, this is a bit of a stretch, but...
> 
> I am a grad student working on RoboCup (the robotic soccer research
> initiative).  I work on the legged league, which involves Sony Aibo
> robots.  The SDK that Sony distributes is for C/C++.  I hate programming
> in C/C++ but I like programming in Ruby.  This year, the UPenn team
> wrote a Perl interpreter for the Aibo and wrote all of their code in
> Perl.  I would cry tears of joy were it at all straightforward to do
> something similar for Ruby on the Aibo.  I have no idea what this would
> entail though.  Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Hmm, what is the platform itself like? What
OS does it run?

SWIG might be an option.

Hal

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