Hindsight is 20/20. Luckily, so is MadDog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bum_wine Hey, I'm on topic for once!
The benefit would be that Ruby could become another fossilized coprolite of a language, similar to COBOL, SNOBOL, FORTRAN, and RATFOR. It would still suck as much as it does today, but it would be carefully defined to…
That's because HotSpot is written in C++, whereas the Java libraries are written in, well, Java.
Hindsight is 20/20. Luckily, so is MadDog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bum_wine Hey, I'm on topic for once!
The benefit would be that Ruby could become another fossilized coprolite of a language, similar to COBOL, SNOBOL, FORTRAN, and RATFOR. It would still suck as much as it does today, but it would be carefully defined to…
That's because HotSpot is written in C++, whereas the Java libraries are written in, well, Java.