Lennie DeVilliers
11/27/2003 2:38:00 PM
Sorry guys, sent the message by mistake (Ctrl + Enter) before finnishing my
comments.
Ruby is an interpreter language, we're running it on a Linux server... I
dont know if there's a compiler avialable (?) Actually that doesnt matter to
me as Ruby runs very fast.
>- Is it possible to create distributable binaries that don't require
> a Ruby installation?
Check code written 10/20 yrs ago! Code at that stage was COMPLETELLY
unreadable.
You can write obfuscate code in any programming language.
>- Is it possible to obfuscate code so that it is no longer readable
> (that question did come up elsewhere when C# was fresh and someone
> wrote a tool that created quite readable C# code from CLI
> instructions).
I guest that depends on the business facts.
>- How to deal with the choice between two licenses?
Very! I wrote the server scripts on my MS Win 2000 PC and they ran without
making *any* changes on our Linux server.
>- How portable are Programs written in Ruby?
For decades Perl & Python was use on Linux, Ruby isnt so old but in
comparision with those I say Perl have the most docs, then Ruby, then
Python.
>- How does Ruby compare to Perl and Python in terms of availability
> of libraries available books, other documentation and libraries?
I once ported a C++ app over to a Ruby script, the script is running *much*
faster in comparison.
Even if its a interpreted language the speed isnt a question.
>- Why switch from a compiled language to an interpreted language?
Lennie De Villiers