From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-05-14T08:23:51+09:00
Subject: Rite implementation in C++? (Objective C?)

In article <40A3E539.2010204@hypermetrics.com>,
Hal Fulton  <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:

>> I read on the Ruby wiki that it is being considered that Rite be written 
>> (or Riten lol) in C++... could this be a neat little feature?
>
>
>As for implementing Rite in C++, I seem to remember Matz saying he would
>*not* do such a thing. Where on the wiki did you see the comment?
>

I've been thinking lately that it might be easier to do a Ruby 
implementation in Objective-C.  Seems like it could make life a bit easier 
because Objective-C and Ruby have some things in common philosophically.  
Also you could take advantage of Obj-C's collection classes where needed.
Since Objective-C is just an add-on to C it probably wouldn't be too hard 
to build on existing code.  Also, Objective C is supported by GCC.

....of course, the downside on Windows is that the Microsoft compilers 
don't support Objective C so all builds would have to be done under Cygwin 
or MinGW. That may be a problem for some.  There wouldn't be any problems 
on the Mac OSX platform, though ;-)

Phil