REPOST: Re: Python and Ruby: a comparison

[Tim Roberts]

Boris Borcic <borcis at geneva-link.ch> wrote:

>Conrad Schneiker wrote:
> 
>> So my question is: at such a presently entirely hypothetical future
>> juncture, is there any practical and desirable middle ground for a common
>> single successor language to the current generations of Python and Ruby?
>
>What would be fun is to have library interoperability completed
>with interlingual source-to-source conversion from adequately
>constrained style... premitting more or less, to use one's language
>superficial idioms to mean corresponding idioms in the other
>language.

Oddly enough, I believe that is almost exactly what Bill Gates believes he
has created with .NET and the common language runtime.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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