From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2004-07-04T00:47:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Why I don't use Ruby.

I know I shouldn't, but I'm going to anyways ...

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:08:01 +0900,
Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
>
> And even if you go this way, your program will then be as save as a
> program in FORTH - or a C program where everything is casted to (void*)

Actually, my Forth (you may use lower case, nowadays) programs are quite
stable. I have much more faith in them than in other compiled programs,
where I don't know what's going on.

>
> Lisp guys write some routines in this "typed Lisp", rubyist's write
> them in "C", so it's not so different.
>

And you usually have a built in assembler available in Forth :-)

Have a nice weekend, everyone.
s.