From: Chuck Messenger <cmessengeratinamedotcom@...>
Date: 2001-04-24T05:11:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14104] Re: Stripped-down Ruby?

Just for reference (for any Deja News hunters out there), I found pretty
much exactly what I was looking for, courtesy of Donavon Keithley: Lua.
See http://www.lua.org

    - Chuck

"Chuck Messenger" <cmessengeratinamedotcom@spamfooler.com> wrote in message
news:eIiE6.17829$gl.1904694@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com...
> 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
>
>