From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T22:50:59+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

* Markus <markus@reality.com> [Oct 09, 2004 14:02]:
>     Ah, but that would be great!  (And many people are converging on
> this very ability.)  Not perhaps to write Pascal in ruby (though who
> knows?), but I have seen SQL, Postscript, and Forth (for a control
> system) integrated with ruby.  Plus little "built to suit languages"
> that were invented on the spot.  In every case, it was The Right Thing
> To Do (tm) and made what would otherwise have been a difficult problem
> much easier to write, to understand, and to maintain.

Precisely.  This is great for domain specific languages,
	nikolai

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