I suspect that no Apple employee will be able to comment on this, but I _really_ hope MacRuby will be among the blessed languages for the iPad, etc. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm at cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, system design