On Friday 07 December 2001 11:55 am, Phil Tomson wrote: > In article <B3265BDC-EB39-11D5-97BA-0050E4C58663 / eyemg.com>, > > Joseph Erickson <jerickson / eyemg.com> wrote: > >Has there been any thought in the Ruby Community of actively porting > >Perl and Python modules? I know there are requests for specific modules > well :) is to pick a Perl/Python module that you would like to use in Ruby > and port it (check to see that we don't have it already, of course). Only problem with most Perl modules is that they are FAR from being object-oriented. Thus you can't just take a Perl API and port it to Ruby (with the exception of the very few Perl modules that are object-oriented). Python modules tend to be a little easier to port. I'm thinking about porting some of mine to Ruby, but lack of time (sigh).... -- Eric Lee Green GnuPG public key at http://badtux.org/eric/eric.gpg mailto:eric / badtux.org Web: http://www.badtux.org You do not save freedom by destroying freedom