From: gabriele renzi Date: 2004-07-20T18:37:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Specification il Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:07:18 +0200, "Anders K. Madsen" ha scritto:: >And just a little note. >I don't see why some people (e.g. Lothar) makes a problem out of someone >wanting to make rubycc. IMO a Ruby compiler wouldn't hurt anyone. Even >if there are some approximating the functionality around already. If >they dislike this project, they should just ignore it and stop being so >damn negative about it! It's not a very creative approach to anything! I don't think people is being "damn negative". I think everybody would agree that having a fastlight ruby compiler with type inference, runtime hotspot detection and magic based garbage collection would be nice. People (me) is just pointing out that this is quite hard (as Cardinal, Carbone, MetaRuby, YARV, netruby and others show, ending such a task is really difficult, starting it is not), and that maybe time could be used working on matz' ruby instead of restarting from scratch. In the end I wish David Ross best luck for his own implementation, I'll be pleased to use it.