Ruby Impressions

[Duncan Booth]

ptkwt at shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in 
news:Sfx%7.155696$lV4.26861983 at e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com:

>>1. Must be free open source
> 
> Ruby is free open source (under GPL and a loosened GPL)

I don't know Ruby. Does this mean that I cannot use Ruby to build a closed-
source application? One of the big benefits of Python is that, although 
Python itself is open source, I can use it to produce a program that is 
distributed without source (e.g. using py2exe).


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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?