On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:05:02 -0600, John Lam (IRONRUBY)
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He also gets a number of important technical details wrong about
IronRuby, I'll respond later today.
I can point out at least one: "IronRuby really has its roots in the
Ruby.NET project from Queensland University of Technology" is incorrect.
The IronRuby parser/scanner was bootstrapped by the Ruby.NET
parser/scanner, but has since removed all signs of the Ruby.NET
parser/scanner in favor of a from-the-ground-up implementation written
entirely by -- I believe -- Tomas Matousek. Of course, as Charlie points
out somewhat correctly in his opening paragraph,
IronRuby was still Wilco Bauer's IronRuby, a doomed codebase and project
name eventually to be adopted by Microsoft's later Ruby implementation
effort.
... which is at least partially correct, if not a bit misleading given
that for all intents and purposes the IronRuby project of today is a
from-the-ground-up implementation of the Ruby language and runtime based
on top of the from-the-ground-up Dynamic Language Runtime code base and
architecture.
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