From: Chuck Messenger <cmessengeratinamedotcom@...>
Date: 2001-04-22T02:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13990] Stripped-down Ruby?

I need to embed a scripting language in an app I'm creating (a gaming app).
The only inputs to the language will come from my app, and the only output
will go to my app.  That is, there will be no OS interaction.  My app is the
OS.

I want to use an already-developed scripting language.  Besides the benefit
of saving on writing my own interpreter, the biggest benefit is that I want
users of my app to be able to reference a mature body of documentation about
the scripting language itself, apart from the hooks into my system.

So, Ruby looks like a promising candidate.  The main problem with Ruby is
that I need to strip out all the OS hooks.  This is partly a security issue,
and partly a code size issue.  Mainly the former.

Has any work been done in this direction?  That is, a Ruby with absolutely
no OS hooks?  Ideally, even memory allocation would come from my app, rather
than malloc.


    - Chuck