From: bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Jul.25.03@...
Date: 2003-07-26T00:20:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby interpreters for different platforms

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In article <20030722041146.GG11576@cs.utexas.edu>,
Kurt M. Dresner <kdresner@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>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?
>

_ If it's possible to write a perl wrapper for API, it should be
  pretty simple to write one for Ruby. The ruby API is MUCH MUCH
  easier to work with than the XS interface in perl. 

_ Porting the Ruby intepreter is maybe more work, but if perl
  ports to the platform, then Ruby should without too much work. 

_ You might want to also look a Lua, it's a language designed for
  exactly this kind of stuff and is very portable. 

_ Booker C. Bense 

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