From: Peter Suk <peter.kwangjun.suk@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T02:58:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row


On Apr 8, 2005, at 8:19 AM, George wrote:

> Avi / Peter -- thanks for providing the feedback I was looking for.
> Ruby and Smalltalk do indeed sound like a good match. I remember Robert
> Feldt saying a few years ago that he'd done some experiments with Ruby
> on Smallscript's VM that looked promising.
>
> Peter said:
>> From now on, if you are completely ignorant of Smalltalk,
>> I will cease answering these questions here.
>
> Yikes! I _am_ almost completely ignorant of Smalltalk (I'm know the
> basic concepts of the language, but I've never programmed in it), but
> I've done some work on VMs and was genuinely interested in the answers.

Sorry, it was late at night, and that came off harsher than it should 
have.  It's just that I'm finding myself essentially repeating myself.  
The feedback has informed my thinking and has been valuable, but I 
should just tell people to go and find and read docs. I will get around 
to posting them on the RubyForge site.  This project is named Alumina.  
Ruby is just one crystalline form of Alumina.

--Peter

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