Hello Shannon, Saturday, December 14, 2002, 5:21:23 AM, you wrote: SF> I think compiling into java source code is very useful, simply for SF> political reason. If I can convert Ruby code into Java source, I can SF> easily impress my boss about the speed that I can program in Java. It is this code will be completely unreadable and unmodifiable. ruby is dynamic language and translating it to java will be not better than sending to boss C sources of ruby implementation with "now i write programs in C" statement :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz / integ.ru