From: Friedrich Dominicus Date: 2004-07-10T00:02:32+09:00 Subject: Re: speeding ruby development Charles Mills writes: >> >> What are you missing? >> What is supposed to be added to Ruby 2.0 > See http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Rite Well I'm very much suprised that most seem to appreciate Ruby 2. I have a very ungut feeling about it all has the "features" of the second system which Brooks describes in book the mythical man month. Do I have to remind you of the big troubles from Perl 4.x to Perl 5.x and then again from 5.x somewhat to 5.8? How long are they talking about Parrot now? 3 years? Oh it's doable of course, but it will contain tons of bugs from the beginning and that will last at least up to version 2.2 to shake out most of them. Is that really worth it? What I especially dislike is breaking backwards compatiblity. Nothing is more annoying then coming back to a software you have written and change it over and over again just because a new version of the Interpreter/Compiler was shipped. Ah yes it is probably just a bit annoying to hobbyists, because of all the new shiny features. But for those happy with what the've written in Ruby 1.8.... Whoever will/does/have work(ed) on the VM should think at least twice about what the Squeak people have done.... Regards Friedich -- Please remove just-for-news- to reply via e-mail.