From: Morten Hindsholm <morten@...>
Date: 2000-12-30T08:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8311] Re: Ruby on .NET? A Perl Experience

Matt Harrington <matt@msg.ucsf.edu> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 04:58:46AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > So, stuff to think about. .NET compatibility may get to be a big deal, 
> > and Ruby might get hurt without it. At the same time, it doesn't sound 
> > like an ideal environment for a dynamic language.
> 
> 
> I believe that's why Microsoft dropped VBScript as their preferred 
> scripting language for .NET.  They favor JScript (ECMAScript).
> 
> I spend most of my time these days with .NET.  So far, so good.  I think 
> ActiveState is working on Perl.NET and Python.NET.  the number of .NET 
> languages is quite large now.  i last counted 19.
> 
> ---Matt
> 

Is anybody investigating how to run Ruby on the Java VM?

Being a fan of both the (dynamic) Ruby and the (more static) Java, I think it
would make a lot of sense, and as we all know, the Java VM is cross-platform and
all that.

The article mentioned in the original post links to a page
(http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html) with descriptions of
about 130 languages for the Java VM, including 4 Eiffel and 3 Smalltalk
implementations, so maybe it is possible...?

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