From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-04-25T01:08:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on .NET (was Re: A Ruby WishList)

Robert Feldt wrote:
> I have a student doing a proof-of-concept Ruby-to-CIL compiler. We 
> expect to have something to show in late May. It is unclear if it will 
> be of any use more than showing what is missing in CLR to support 
> dynamic languages in a good way. OTOH, so far it looks rather promising; 
> we even found a way to dynamically redefine methods without bending over 
> backwards... ;)


David Simmons, the creator of Smallscript/S# [0] (Smalltalk for .Net), 
used to frequent this list.  I believe he has discussed many of the 
issues with porting a dynamically-typed language to the CLR (some on 
ruby-talk, but also at  [1]).

[0] http://www.smallscript.org/
[1] http://www.smallscript.org/Downloads/SSharp_NET_Notes.asp

James Britt