REPOST: Re: Python and Ruby: a comparison

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> writes:

    Tim> Oddly enough, I believe that is almost exactly what Bill
    Tim> Gates believes he has created with .NET and the common
    Tim> language runtime.

And which Ximian and GNOME are bringing to the open source world with
Mono: http://www.go-mono.org

See also the article in this months Dr Dobbs by GNOME founder Miguel
de Icaza and Brian Jepson:
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1818/ddj0201a/0201a.htm

They say that one of the reasons they decided to go with .NET is
because it would reduce the cost of having to provide language
bindings (python, tcl, perl, java etc) to the GNOME API.

John Hunter

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