Re: Ruby history

Ruby
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language and
for this report, but also to learn, understand, and advance
my knowledge
of computing in general. Any new languages I learn helps me become a
better programmer. Please e-mail me at [email protected]

Thanks in advance for any helpful and/or useful information,
Craig Robert Schweitzer University of Central Florida

You may want to email Matz directly to request that information. I
suspect it exists, but that much of the earlier stuff is in Japanese
only.

Also, there is no Ruby ‘compiler’. There’s also no ‘runtime
environment’, though if you mean a virtual machine, one is coming for
Ruby 2.0 (YARV).

Regards,

Dan

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Also, there is no Ruby ‘compiler’

Dan

I thought there was a way to compile Ruby into an executable (similar,
but
better than, Perl’s perlcc), or did I misread an email thread that went
by a
while back?

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David I. wrote:

Also, there is no Ruby ‘compiler’

Dan

I thought there was a way to compile Ruby into an executable (similar, but
better than, Perl’s perlcc), or did I misread an email thread that went by a
while back?

I believe you’re thinking of either exerb or rubyscriptexe, which only
work for
Windows (or Linux). They aren’t ‘compilers’ per se.

Regards,

Dan

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On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:00 PM, David I. wrote:

Also, there is no Ruby ‘compiler’

Dan

I thought there was a way to compile Ruby into an executable
(similar, but
better than, Perl’s perlcc), or did I misread an email thread that
went by a
while back?

I remember finding a way to package a Ruby program in an executable,
but it wasn’t a compiler, it just packed the Ruby interpreter along
with the Ruby source into the .exe.

Tim

5

Thank you very much for your help…do you know how to contact Matz
directly? Do you know his e-mail or any other way of contacting him?

Thanks again,
Craig

Berger, Daniel wrote:

language and
for this report, but also to learn, understand, and advance
my knowledge
of computing in general. Any new languages I learn helps me become a
better programmer. Please e-mail me at [email protected]

Thanks in advance for any helpful and/or useful information,
Craig Robert Schweitzer University of Central Florida

You may want to email Matz directly to request that information. I
suspect it exists, but that much of the earlier stuff is in Japanese
only.

Also, there is no Ruby ‘compiler’. There’s also no ‘runtime
environment’, though if you mean a virtual machine, one is coming for
Ruby 2.0 (YARV).

Regards,

Dan

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On 3/22/06, Craig S. [email protected] wrote:

Thank you very much for your help…do you know how to contact Matz
directly? Do you know his e-mail or any other way of contacting him?

Well, he reads this list, so there’s a fair chance he’ll see this
post. If you don’t want to wait, give him a shot here:
[email protected]

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Bill G. wrote:

Well, he reads this list, so there’s a fair chance he’ll see this
post. If you don’t want to wait, give him a shot here:
[email protected]

And while you’re waiting to hear from Matz, check this out, if you
haven’t already:

 http://www.rubygarden.org/faq/section/show/1

–Steve

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Stephen W. wrote:

Bill G. wrote:

Well, he reads this list, so there’s a fair chance he’ll see this
post. If you don’t want to wait, give him a shot here:
[email protected]

And while you’re waiting to hear from Matz, check this out, if you
haven’t already:

 http://www.rubygarden.org/faq/section/show/1

–Steve

Thank you all very much. I might ask a question about how to write an
certain example program in a little while. Is that okay on this forum,
or is there a better place for me to ask for help?

Craig S.