From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T04:36:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row

On Apr 7, 2005 12:19 PM, jc <james.cromwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> - Would this support programming both within or without an image,
> choice up to the user?
> 
> - From what I understand Smalltalk has a small VM written in C, with
> the rest written in Smalltalk itself. Would your version be the Ruby
> equivalent of this (VM with everything else in Ruby), or would there
> still be some Smalltalk behind the Ruby?

See the MetaRuby project:

http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/metaruby/index.html (among other places)


(Although this is about Ruby in Ruby, not Ruby in smalltalk)

> 
> -jc
> 
> 


-- 
thanks,
-pate
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