From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-07-20T00:17:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Specification


> I understand your reasons, but I think you can look
> at parse.y and
> refer to the ri documentation for most things,
> safely.
> Matz' company is definitely not SCO, I believe.
I hope they are not SCO. I refuse to look at any
source code though.

> I don't think that gc is part of a ruby
specification.
> Maybe you intended eval.c ?
I should have said, "I do not understand the GC, and
parsing evaluations are a task as well. To start
though I need to know how ruby is expected to work.
Each language GC is different, but performs the same
task.
 

> >It is important to expanding ruby
> >IMO. Something in the essence of how Lua has a
> >compiler. It would be really nice. 
> 
> it would, but you'd need some interpreter runtime
> anyway.
> Maybe you could compile to C code and link the ruby
> runtime library

yes, you would need a runtime. I have not planned
anything out yet, its in the idea stage.

 
> >Also, thanks to
> >that there is no ruby compiler I could not use it
> in a
> >commercial project.
> 
> if you mean you need to hide/obfuscate code, maybe
> you just need a
> vm+bytecode, as lothar scholz pointed.
> 

I really do not like compiling software into bytecode.
They wanted a standalone executable, they did not want
any third party interpreters. 

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Okay in response to a few things that have been
mentioned to me elsewhere. Even with dynamic nature of
ruby, it is still possible to create a native
compiler. You have to have a runtime running with it.
It is difficult, and certainly something that would
take a while. I'm tired of hearing, "It can't be done"
in software programming. Just because people think it
cannot be done doesn't mean they are right about it.

Why create a compiler to create stand alone
executables?

I find it difficult to have third part software
installed on the computer. Also, if someone wants to
include an application on a OS which I will not
mention, they want a standalone that does not need a
interpreter. This is one of the main reasons.

--David Ross


		
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