Re: Ruby

2001-03-05 Thread Mark Hulme-Jones
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 05:39:54PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: Jonathan Peterson sent the following bits through the ether: The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: It's very Perlish, but over-the-top OO-ish at the same time. The interpreter just runs over the parse tree -

Re: Ruby

2001-03-05 Thread Leon Brocard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following bits through the ether: Slightly OT, but does anyone think it would be possible to run Perl/Ruby/Java bytecode directly on a Transmeta Crusoe chip? As I understand it, you would only need to implement a VLIW translation layer or whatever Yes, right. This

Re: Ruby

2001-03-05 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: [1] which is why Java-JVM and Java-.NET CLR are hard and slow ... A living example of Artificial Intelligence Hmmm, I obviously meant Perl instead of Java there. How bizarre. Leon -- Leon

Re: Ruby

2001-03-03 Thread Leon Brocard
Jonathan Peterson sent the following bits through the ether: The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: It's very Perlish, but over-the-top OO-ish at the same time. The interpreter just runs over the parse tree - none of these fancy bytecodes and stuff. I'm not convinced, but get

Re: Ruby

2001-03-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:15:01PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Hey, The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: 1. Why on earth you'd use Python instead of Ruby. Because Python is a lot cleaner and more elegant? And doesn't require all those daft nested "end"s? But I'm

Re: Ruby

2001-03-01 Thread Rob Partington
In message BF7C70E24CF5D311B52F00B0D0215D411B13FE@IH_SERVER, "Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, Dude. The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: It is really cool. 1. Why on earth you'd use Python instead of Ruby. I wouldn't any more. The only reasons I

Re: Ruby

2001-03-01 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:56:28PM +, Rob Partington wrote: In message BF7C70E24CF5D311B52F00B0D0215D411B13FE@IH_SERVER, "Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, Dude. The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: It is really cool. 1. Why on earth