From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2003-10-01T06:51:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on ARTIMA

Bob X wrote:

>>From the talkback:
> 
> "Ruby is over 10 years old, very popular in Japan, gaining popularity in
> other parts of the world, have thousands of users and hundreds of hackers.
> However, the implementation (Ruby has only 1 currently, written in C) is
> pretty weak. It's slow, does not support native threads, does not do JIT
> compilation (not even bytecode), needs a better GC, etc. It is especially so
> if we compare it with Java and Smalltalk, who have gotten real good
> implementations (JIT compilers, fast GC, threads, etc) nowadays."

Let me also add that hand-grenades make terrible hammers.  Discuss.

	Sean O'Dell