From: jfrapper@... (Jim Frapper)
Date: 2003-12-23T08:21:52+09:00
Subject: Question about Ruby2 and Rite....

I have been familiarizing myself with ruby over recent weeks.  This
weekend I took a look over some slides from Matz on the future
development of ruby.

http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/rc2003/index.html

From a scripter on the outside looking in, I have been wondering..... 
Since Perl 6 development (and Parrot) and Ruby development (and Rite)
seem to solve very similiar if not identical problems, why would Matz
and other Ruby developers not get involved and shape the Parrot
project?  Why write Ruby2 and Rite from scratch, when you could write
Ruby on top of Parrot (and help develop Parrot)?

I may be dreaming, but it would seem since the perl community has its
own share of great things (i.e. CPAN etc.)....

I don't know, I must be crazy!?

Cheers,
JF