From: Peter Suk <peter.kwangjun.suk@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T05:18:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row


On Apr 7, 2005, at 2:19 PM, jc wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> - Would this support programming both within or without an image,
> choice up to the user?

Basically, you could treat the image as just a very powerful 
debugger/IDE.  The image would spit out new versions of your module 
files, which you could then edit/diff to your liking.  I have devised a 
very powerful algorithm to respect comments, based on diffs of token 
sequences.

> - 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?

Initially, there would be some Smalltalk behind the Ruby, but we'd fix 
it so you'd never see it.  Eventually, we can develop a completely Ruby 
meta-layer.

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