From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T11:18:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Perl Integration

John,

I like your idea. I think it would be great!

Zach

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Long [mailto:ng@johnwlong.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:07 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Ruby and Perl Integration


----Thomas Adam wrote:----
> The two are so very similar in many respects (heck, perl is probably
> Ruby's parent) that this is pointless, IMHO.

I would think their similarities would make it easier to integrate them. I'm
thinking of a perl.so extension. Something that would let me do:

require "perl"
perl_require "myperlmodule"

and then use the perl code in a rubyish way. How would you see having the
leverage of perl libraries behind ruby as a pointless thing?

--
John