From: Matthias Georgi <matti_g@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T08:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Rite implementation in C++? (Objective C?)

On Fri, 14 May 2004 08:23:51 +0900, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:

> 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.

But you have to ship also the Objective-C runtime lib, so you have either
the dependancy or it will blow up the interpreter in static builds.

Recently, I was looking into ocaml and was impressed by the type inference
system, proving that c++ templating is the wrong way, also the
pattern matching is a nice concept.
And concerning speed, ocamlc is unbeatable.

Just for fun I looked at the great language shootout page
and there is a nice score matrix.
I typed in for CPU 1, Memory 2 and Lines of Code 3 as factors and voila,
ocaml at the first two ranks and ruby at rank 5.

Finally it depends on matz's language skills, impementing the
interpeter is hard enough and I think, a reasonable fast implementation
is possible in all of the common languages (non interpreted).

-- 
Matthias Georgi
matti_g@gmx.de