Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:27:03 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > dsimcha wrote: >> == Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article >>> van Rossum's. And on and on. (Perl, Python, Ruby, have only one >>> implementation.) >> >> Nitpick (since your overall post was mostly on target): Python has >> Jython and IronPython and PyPy. Ruby has JRuby and IronRuby. > > Those came along *much* later, like more than a decade *after* those > languages were successful.
His point was: there *are* other implementations. Other than that, the daily portion of bullshit talk from you is impressive. "Around 2005, interest in the Ruby language surged in tandem with Ruby on Rails, a popular web application framework written in Ruby. Rails is frequently credited with making Ruby "famous" and the association is so strong that the two are sometimes conflated by programmers who are new to Ruby.[9]" [1] "JRuby was originally created by Jan Arne Petersen, in 2001. At that time and for several years following, the code was a direct port of the Ruby 1.6 C code. With the release of Ruby 1.8.6, an effort began to update JRuby to 1.8.6 features and semantics. Since 2001, several contributors have assisted the project, leading to the current (2008) core team of four members." [2] "On April 30, 2007, at MIX 2007, Microsoft announced IronRuby, which uses the same name as Wilco Bauwer's IronRuby project with permission.[3] It was planned to be released to the public at OSCON 2007.[4]" [3] My interpretation: JRuby existed before Ruby was famous. IronRuby was started pretty much because of the Rails hype. A lot of other CLR projects were also started at that time, though. It couldn't have started a lot earlier because of the immaturity of CLR. I don't use Python that much so I have no idea when it really got popular. The code swarm video [4] gives some impressions. It looks like in 2000 it finally took off. Jython started in 1997 and moved to sourceforge in 2000 [5]. IronPython was announced in 2006 [6]. Conclusion: 1997-2000 = -3 and 2006-2000 = 6 are a lot less than a "*much* later, like more than a decade".. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronRuby [4] http://www.vimeo.com/1093745 [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jython [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPython
