Imagine, if you will, a core application’s code base that stretches back ten years, has around 3,500 classes, and 15,000 compiler warnings. In its germination, the Java industry had confused ideas about interoperability, no standard collections, no O/R mapping frameworks, application servers (lightweight or otherwise), and no sensible OO patterns of enterprise architecture to be [...]
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Although they have a lame Rugby League team, those Queenslanders are a clever lot… We are pleased to announce the preliminary Beta release of the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. Note: this is not just a Ruby/.NET bridge, nor a Ruby Interpreter implemented on .NET, but a true .NET compiler. The compiler can be used to [...]
Cat Stevens has a great song called “Rubylove”. I play it from my laptop when some of the guys from the office come in. Although I dislike mishmashed syntax, I’ve played with OCAML and Scheme over the past few days and have come to the conclusion that Ruby is the best of a bad bunch [...]
