[#77662] A bundle of newbie queries — Gawnsoft <xlucid@...>

I've finally overcome my newbie embarrassment enough to post about

14 messages 2003/08/01

[#77707] Re: is rubyforge down ? — "Tom Copeland" <tom@...>

> On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:53:05 +0200, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

16 messages 2003/08/01

[#77794] 1.8.0-previewX rb_sys_fail() on socket instead of an Exception. — Kero van Gelder <kero@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2003/08/02

[#77806] Indentation Style — Nikolai Weibull <lone-star@...>

I've been meaning to ask this for quite some time. Why is and

28 messages 2003/08/02
[#77817] Re: Indentation Style — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...> 2003/08/02

* Nikolai Weibull (lone-star@home.se) wrote:

[#77838] Re: Indentation Style — Seth Kurtzberg <seth@...> 2003/08/02

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 23:02:08 +0900

[#77840] Re: Indentation Style — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/02

On Sat August 2 2003 1:01 pm, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:

[#77888] Lafcadio: An object-relational mapping layer for Ruby — sera@... (Francis Hwang)

Hi everybody,

13 messages 2003/08/03

[#77896] Too bad I've found about Ruby — "wit" <wit7777bezspamu@...>

Hi.

21 messages 2003/08/03

[#77928] Take a Fantasy Cruise with Me! — "Katrina" <katrina@...>

Hi again,

14 messages 2003/08/04

[#77946] ruby 1.8.0 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Hello,

32 messages 2003/08/04

[#77992] clearing a parameter in Ruby? — Roy Patrick Tan <rtan@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2003/08/04

[#78023] Parrot SMOP benchmark — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>

I was just reading Dan Sugalski's slides from RubyConf 2002 and noticed the benchmarks relating to something called "SMOP" at the end of the article.

12 messages 2003/08/04

[#78032] What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0? — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>

Since there were a number of requests around for a more detailed

29 messages 2003/08/05
[#78122] Re: What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0? — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...> 2003/08/06

why the lucky stiff wrote:

[#78054] Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Somethings rotten...

21 messages 2003/08/05
[#78055] Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — ts <decoux@...> 2003/08/05

>>>>> "D" == David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> writes:

[#78057] Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2003/08/05

> D> irb(main):001:0> require 'Singleton'

[#78058] Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — ts <decoux@...> 2003/08/05

>>>>> "D" == David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> writes:

[#78080] Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2003/08/05

ts wrote:

[#78089] format number with comma separators? — Chris Morris <chrismo@...>

I'm brain dead and just trying to get formatted numbers in a task that's

13 messages 2003/08/05

[#78151] Why does Ruby have callcc? — Jim Bob <invalid@...>

I understand, in a woozy sort of way, what callcc does. What I

46 messages 2003/08/06
[#78158] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...> 2003/08/06

Jim Bob wrote:

[#78247] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/06

I have been interested in these continuation-thingys for a while now, so now

[#78165] newbie question from a smalltalker — "Adriano Volpones" <adriano.volpones@...>

Dear all,

38 messages 2003/08/06
[#78166] Re: newbie question from a smalltalker — Lyle Johnson <lyle@...> 2003/08/06

Adriano Volpones wrote:

[#78173] Re: newbie question from a smalltalker — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2003/08/06

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 11:22:21 PM, Lyle wrote:

[#78251] More on DRB & OpenSSL — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...>

OK, I've tracked down my problem with DRb and OpenSSL a bit more; perhaps

26 messages 2003/08/06
[#78253] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...> 2003/08/06

Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

[#78256] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — Aredridel <aredridel@...> 2003/08/06

> I've noticed that there is always a strange silence on DRb questions. I=20

[#78265] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...> 2003/08/06

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Aredridel wrote:

[#78270] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...> 2003/08/06

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng [mailto:hgs@dmu.ac.uk] wrote:

[#78309] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...> 2003/08/07

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

[#78274] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Dan Doel <djd15@...>

As for why callcc takes a block (I didn't see this in any of the replies

19 messages 2003/08/07
[#78291] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/07

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 08:32 PM, Dan Doel wrote:

[#78299] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Jim Weirich <jweirich@...> 2003/08/07

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 00:42, Ben Giddings wrote:

[#78427] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/08

On Thu August 7 2003 3:03 am, Jim Weirich wrote:

[#78282] Re: [Devculture] ruby question - try Python also (fwd) — Pat Eyler <pate@...>

hmmm, this doesn't mesh terribly well with my experience. Anyone else car

13 messages 2003/08/07

[#78328] Elegant solution for a loop-break problem — KONTRA Gergely <kgergely@...>

Hi!

27 messages 2003/08/07

[#78419] Distributing Ruby applications — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Hello Rubyists,

19 messages 2003/08/08

[#78487] Re: Ducktype, right? — "Mills Thomas (app1tam)" <app1tam@...>

> -----Original Message-----

20 messages 2003/08/08
[#78502] Re: Ducktype, right? — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2003/08/08

Mills Thomas (app1tam) wrote:

[#78505] Re: Ducktype, right? — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/08

On Fri August 8 2003 1:25 pm, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#78511] Re: Ducktype, right? — Chris Morris <chrismo@...> 2003/08/08

Ben Giddings wrote:

[#78569] Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — Meino Christian Cramer <mccramer@...>

Hi !

48 messages 2003/08/09
[#78620] Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...> 2003/08/10

Kent Dahl <kentda+news@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:

[#78622] Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — Dan Doel <djd15@...> 2003/08/10

[#78629] Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — dblack@... 2003/08/10

Hi --

[#78634] Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — Dan Doel <djd15@...> 2003/08/10

dblack@superlink.net wrote:

[#78664] rbbr-0.3.1 — Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>

Hi,

38 messages 2003/08/11
[#78670] Re: [ANN] rbbr-0.3.1 — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/08/11

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:10:41PM +0900, Masao Mutoh wrote:

[#78672] Re: [ANN] rbbr-0.3.1 — Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...> 2003/08/11

Hi,

[#78674] Re: [ANN] rbbr-0.3.1 — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/08/11

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:50:56PM +0900, Masao Mutoh wrote:

[#78682] How to build a distributable Solaris binary for Ruby 1.8? — google-venkatp@... (Venkat)

Hello all:

12 messages 2003/08/11

[#78736] Ruby vs Python? — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2003/08/11

[#78755] NaN and Inifinity — Scott Thompson <easco@...>

If I do something like

22 messages 2003/08/12

[#78810] UTF-8 question — Nikolai Weibull <lone-star@...>

I've finally switched to UTF-8. It's awesome. Now, if I can only find

24 messages 2003/08/12
[#78823] Re: UTF-8 question — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/12

Hi,

[#78834] Re: UTF-8 question — Nikolai Weibull <lone-star@...> 2003/08/12

* Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> [Aug, 12 2003 18:10]:

[#78867] Re: UTF-8 question — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/12

Hi,

[#78813] Nested class/module namespace — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...>

The new ability to declare a class nested in another module (or class)

36 messages 2003/08/12
[#78831] Re: Nested class/module namespace — Kent Dahl <kentda+news@...> 2003/08/12

Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

[#78862] Re: Nested class/module namespace — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...> 2003/08/12

Kent Dahl [mailto:kentda+news@stud.ntnu.no] wrote:

[#78843] Re: Nested class/module namespace — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/12

Hi,

[#78815] Windows Installer for Ruby 1.8.0 Final — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

Thanks for your patience

21 messages 2003/08/12

[#78836] AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added — "Recheis Meinrad" <Meinrad.Recheis@...>

29 messages 2003/08/12
[#78858] Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...> 2003/08/12

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:56:48 +0900, Recheis Meinrad wrote:

[#78980] Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...> 2003/08/13

Hello Simon,

[#79002] Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added) — Jim Weirich <jweirich@...> 2003/08/13

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:03, Lothar Scholz wrote:

[#79009] Re: Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added) — Richard Kilmer <rich@...> 2003/08/14

A difference between smalltalk and ruby...smalltalk is image based

[#79044] Re: Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added) — "Its Me" <itsme213@...> 2003/08/14

[#79046] Re: Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added) — Richard Kilmer <rich@...> 2003/08/14

[#78905] ruby curses documentation ? — MENON Jean-Francois <jean-francois.menon@...>

hello,

12 messages 2003/08/13

[#78961] Java/Ruby communication — Nigel Gilbert <n.gilbert@...>

I am planning to write a Java program and and a Ruby program and have

16 messages 2003/08/13

[#79001] Overloading () — Dan Doel <djd15@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2003/08/13

[#79060] Ruby & Windows-world; IDEs — Armin Roehrl <armin@...>

Hi all,

32 messages 2003/08/14

[#79142] list of Ruby capable text editors? — Martin Pirker <crf@...>

Hi...

25 messages 2003/08/15

[#79192] Newbie Q: Data encapsulation with Ruby — Meino Christian Cramer <mccramer@...>

Hi,

23 messages 2003/08/16
[#79195] Re: Newbie Q: Data encapsulation with Ruby — dblack@... 2003/08/16

Hi --

[#79250] Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml — <prosys@...>

Hi All,

53 messages 2003/08/17
[#80116] Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml — "Jason Watkins" <jason_watkins@...> 2003/08/25

OCaml is a fine language, but it certainly is not as fun as ruby... unless

[#80142] Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/08/25

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:23:56PM +0900, Jason Watkins wrote:

[#80148] Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml — mark <msparshatt@...> 2003/08/25

On Monday 25 Aug 2003 4:10 pm, Brian Candler wrote:

[#79280] Wish: Python-style indenting — Jon_Aquino@... (Jonathan Aquino)

I wish Ruby had Python's use of whitespace to indicate blocks. Then I

17 messages 2003/08/17

[#79283] Bug when rerouting String#gsub with a block using $1? — Florian Gross <flgr@...>

Moin!

11 messages 2003/08/17

[#79292] Ruby for 3D graphics? — "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com>

Ok, I'm sick to death of C++. I'm moving on to a higher level language of

14 messages 2003/08/18

[#79319] Question: immutable strings as design goal? — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

-talkers,

15 messages 2003/08/18

[#79337] Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

33 messages 2003/08/18
[#79362] Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal? — hanzspam@... (Hannu Kankaanp粐) 2003/08/18

Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote in message news:<oprt3sncb0oglyup@mail1.telia.com>...

[#79397] Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal? — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2003/08/18

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 3:21:32 AM, Hannu wrote:

[#79412] Why did you switch from Python to Ruby? — "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com>

This question is only meant to apply to people who used to use Python, but

174 messages 2003/08/19
[#79492] Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) — "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com> 2003/08/19

Sean O'Dell wrote:

[#79504] Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) — Michael Granger <ged@...> 2003/08/20

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

[#79517] Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) — "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com> 2003/08/20

Sean O'Dell wrote:

[#79522] Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) — Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...> 2003/08/20

[#79414] $VERBOSE=true returns warnings from standard library — thomass@... (Thomas)

I normally write my ruby code with $VERBOSE=true. When I do this in

11 messages 2003/08/19

[#79433] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — phlip_cpp@... (Phlip)

> I don't know either. I do know of several posters on the XP

18 messages 2003/08/19
[#79435] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — "Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/08/19

> If you were to instrument my physical responses and typing rate while

[#79461] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — "Dave Benjamin" <dave@3dex.com> 2003/08/19

"Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote in message

[#79462] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — dblack@... 2003/08/19

Hi --

[#79470] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — dblack@... 2003/08/19

Hi --

[#79533] What attracts me to Ruby — Ged Byrne <gedb01@...>

As a newbie moving over from Python, the recent posts

24 messages 2003/08/20

[#79655] Punctuation as noise — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

I've been thinking for a day or so about

21 messages 2003/08/20

[#79673] Trollassassin — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>

So, I had this idea, but I couldn't think of anywhere better to post it.

13 messages 2003/08/20

[#79754] Class variables - a surprising result — Jason Williams <jason@...>

class Sup

14 messages 2003/08/21

[#79788] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>

Obviously there's some confusion though Matz.

19 messages 2003/08/21
[#79815] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/21

Hi,

[#79822] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> 2003/08/21

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:47:33AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#79794] Integrated Webserver? — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>

The HTML form thread made me wonder if we shouldn't have some equivalent

13 messages 2003/08/21

[#79818] Re: How do I handle an HTML form from ruby? — "Mills Thomas (app1tam)" <app1tam@...>

Having Ruby start a browser with the correct form.html file is easy enough.

20 messages 2003/08/21
[#80198] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — Ludwigi Beethoven <aix_tech@...> 2003/08/26

Thank you Nathaniel.

[#80269] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> 2003/08/26

il Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:01:51 +0900, David Corbin

[#80369] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2003/08/27

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:28:31AM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:

[#80578] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — Ludwigi Beethoven <aix_tech@...> 2003/08/29

I am not sure what the AIX comment is all about, but

[#80586] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/08/29

--- Ludwigi Beethoven <aix_tech@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#79819] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>

My point was that many programmar's mistake Ruby's 'class' variables as

26 messages 2003/08/21
[#79887] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/22

Hi,

[#79888] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@...> 2003/08/22

> Hi,

[#79890] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...> 2003/08/22

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:32:12 +0900

[#79894] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...> 2003/08/22

Ryan Pavlik wrote:

[#79898] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — Dan Doel <djd15@...> 2003/08/22

Patrick Bennett wrote:

[#79901] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...> 2003/08/22

Dan Doel wrote:

[#79833] Wrapping ENV — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

I just wrote a little piece of code. Is it useful to anyone but

15 messages 2003/08/21

[#79849] POLS and names of mathematical functions — "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@...>

Saluton!

17 messages 2003/08/21

[#79981] Aspect oriented Everything? — letterbox1001@... (New_aspect)

Hello,

37 messages 2003/08/22

[#80038] Ruby & Perl — David Corbin <dcorbin@...>

Has anyone considered some way to make Perl modules callable from Ruby?

20 messages 2003/08/23

[#80135] Specification of Ruby regex? — Ronald Pijnacker <rhp@...>

Hi all,

32 messages 2003/08/25
[#80211] Re: Specification of Ruby regex? — "Tim Hunter" <cyclists@...> 2003/08/26

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:15:38 +0900, Ronald Pijnacker wrote:

[#80212] Re: Specification of Ruby regex? — Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...> 2003/08/26

Hello!

[#80157] Ruby launching system apps? — "Dan" <falseflyboy@...>

I have a UNIX machine and I want a ruby app that can launch UNIX commands

15 messages 2003/08/25

[#80217] Another Ruby-powered site — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>

http://qurl.net/ -- a couple of hours with Ruby and FastCGI.

21 messages 2003/08/26
[#80276] Re: Another Ruby-powered site — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> 2003/08/26

il Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:58:21 +0900, Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>

[#80278] Re: Another Ruby-powered site — Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/08/26

--- gabriele renzi <surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> wrote:

[#80316] errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>

I'm trying to compile Ruby under Solaris. I suck at C, so I don't know

24 messages 2003/08/27
[#80320] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/27

Hi,

[#80322] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/27

Hi,

[#80327] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...> 2003/08/27

I am using 3.0.3.

[#80331] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/27

Hi,

[#80345] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...> 2003/08/27

> Instead, send ext/socket/mkmf.log.

[#80663] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/31

Hi,

[#80668] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...> 2003/08/31

> What headers do you need to compile sys/socket.h?

[#80670] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/31

Hi,

[#80672] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...> 2003/08/31

It turns out that the thing I sent before was from a Solaris 9 machine,

[#80354] Mac OS X and ruby-postgres again — Thomas Yager-Madden <tym@...>

Hello,

14 messages 2003/08/27
[#80359] Re: Mac OS X and ruby-postgres again — Brian McCallister <mccallister@...> 2003/08/27

How did you install postgresql? I had to specify the location of the

[#80399] os x / mysql : install 1.8 : ruby = nil — paul@... (paul vudmaska)

I'm trying to install ruby/eruby and mysql to learn ruby for web stuff

10 messages 2003/08/27

[#80457] #collect with block modifying receiver — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>

Hello, all...

13 messages 2003/08/28

[#80497] Python vs. Ruby — Fred <fred@...>

Can anyone give me a good reason why I would want to use Ruby over Python?

53 messages 2003/08/28
[#80507] Re: Python vs. Ruby — dagbrown@... (Dave Brown) 2003/08/28

In article <cxu3b.289101$uu5.63844@sccrnsc04>,

[#80519] Re: Python vs. Ruby — Scott Thompson <easco@...> 2003/08/29

> : Can anyone give me a good reason why I would want to use Ruby over

[#80573] Re: Python vs. Ruby — "W. Kent Starr" <wyzzrd@...> 2003/08/29

Careful, boys,

[#80751] Re: Python vs. Ruby — hanzspam@... (Hannu Kankaanp粐) 2003/09/01

"jbritt@ruby-doc.org" <jbritt@ruby-doc.org> wrote in message news:<3F519252.3090408@ruby-doc.org>...

[#80774] Re: Python vs. Ruby — mark <msparshatt@...> 2003/09/01

On Monday 01 Sep 2003 9:47 am, Hannu Kankaanp粐 wrote:

[#80788] Re: Python vs. Ruby 2003/09/01

mark wrote:

[#80884] Re: Python vs. Ruby — james_b <james_b@...> 2003/09/02

Sean O'Dell wrote:

[#80896] Re: Python vs. Ruby 2003/09/02

james_b wrote:

[#80542] multiply all array with array — ibotty <me@...>

before i spent to many words describing something so simple:

16 messages 2003/08/29

[#80715] `echo %!(*` — Tom Felker <tcfelker@...>

Hello all,

15 messages 2003/08/31

Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml

From: "MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2003-08-21 09:33:14 UTC
List: ruby-talk #79755
<nospam4.me@ottomate.biz[remove.me]> wrote in message
news:200308210345.49888.nospam4.me@ottomate.biz...
> Thank you all so much for your informative comments.  I saved a
> few of them and read and re-read them in order so absorb all the
> good info.
>
> I especially liked Mikkel's 'article' at:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/45787
> Very informative!
thanks

> It has been said that OCaml integrates well with C, and the same
> has been said for Ruby.  How about, does Ruby integrate well
> with OCaml or vice versy?

You cannot avoid C when intergrating languages unless you go to a
wireprotocol such as XML-RPC (supported by OCaml and Ruby) or you use a
component technology like COM (not sufficiently supported in both Ruby or
OCaml).

If you just want to have the occasional data exchange XML-RPC may be a fine
choice. I think Ruby has good SOAP support as well. OCaml has SOAP but I
don't think it is mature. You can however build SOAP around OCaml using the
C/C++ library gSOAP and map the SOAP interface to OCaml functions - but this
is only interesting if you generally want to use SOAP.

I know a wireprotocol isn't the fastest solution but it is interesting
because it gives distributed internet operation and language independence.
In particular OCaml is very good at parsing so you can make a small command
language and do many operations at once for each cross language call.

You can also integrate Ruby and OCaml more closely via a C-core. I haven't
tried this but I'm confident that it is possible. The only major obstacle is
interference between OCamls garbage collection and Ruby's garbage collector.
Therefore it is best to avoid having long lived data references from both
languages - at least unless you manage the lifetime manually. Threading may
also be an issue but it doesn't have to be.

In order to intergrate to languages you load both languages from a common
C-Core. Normally Ruby would be in charge and load C-extensions (for example
a TCP-IP library), but you can also embed Ruby in a C application. This C
application can be linked statically with OCaml modules, or it can load
dynamic link libraries containing OCaml. You could also write a Ruby
extension in mixed C and OCaml and have Ruby run the show. This would be a
good for plugging in a parser written in OCaml. I guess this would be the
easiest option.
There is a number of possibilities and it would be a lengthy discussion -
but it isn't all that difficult. I have written a bit of Glue code that
makes it possible to expose OCaml as a DLL and so have others.

In conclusion it is always messy to integrate components but if you have a
project that is large enough to justify it, it is definitely possible.

Before anything else I look at how I can integrate a language into a larger
project. If a language can only be used when it is in full control of the
program, you can't really use it for serious development. I believe both
Ruby and Ocaml are well suited for integration.

> And finally, I will rephrase one of my original questions.  Does
> anyone know if the development plans for Ruby 2.0 still include
> a VM implementation?

I don't think much is known except Matz presented some visions including a
VM on a slideshow and that he has been busy on 1.8 - perhaps now that 1.8 is
out this will make a VM more of a reality. I'm pretty sure Ruby will
eventually get a VM. Even if it is not Rite, there is also the Parrot
project (the future Perl VM engine).

> If and when that does come about, will
> Ruby still be an interperter but with byte-code compilation
> abilities?

Ruby can't function without an intepreter, bytecode or not, because of the
eval statement. But If you think of an interactive interpreter like IRB,
this is a separate question. I can't answer this but I also can't imagine
Ruby without IRB.

Mikkel



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