From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-07-21T14:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Specification

Gully Foyle wrote:
>>
> Fascinating stuff.  You sound MUCH smarter than Lothar of the Hill 
> People (played by Mike Meyers).  And your Arachno Ruby IDE looks really 
>  cool too.

Haha, now, play nice. Lothar is a sharp guy. Though LOL at Mike Meyers.

> IMHO, I think it would be good to leverage all the research and millions 
> already invested by Sun, IBM, et al. in improving java's gc.  I think 
> java provides some command line options related to garbage collection.
> 
> No need to reinvent the wheel--unless the existing wheel isn't round. :)

But is it? Personally GC is one of those areas where I'm completely
ignorant. I need to delve into SICP on of these days... it's on my
to-do list. ;)


Hal