Well to be fair, IronRuby /does/ have it's roots in Ruby.NET in that it was the first Microsoft supported CLR implementation. And I believe Charles is referring to the /name/ of Bauer's IronRuby being adopted by Microsoft, not the codebase.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:52 AM, M. David Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:05:02 -0600, John Lam (IRONRUBY) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > -- > /M:D > > M. David Peterson > Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban, LLC > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mobile: (206) 999-0588 > http://3rdandUrban.com | http://amp.fm | > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > -- Michael Letterle [Polymath Prokrammer] http://blog.prokrams.com _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
