From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2001-05-16T02:37:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15194] Re: Discussion on new Ruby features

Johann Hibschman wrote:
> Personally, I've been wondering if there would be a nice way to
> adapt the GNU Sather compiler to coexisting with Ruby.  Sather is
> one of my favorite languages, although it's very obscure and has
> been floundering a bit since it left ICSI at Berkeley.

Sather would be the optimal language at all IF

1) Its compiliation time would not make impossible to make large projects.
   (compiling a huge project every time you change some details is
    not feasible i.g.)
2) It had rubies syntax

So after all, I think it's possible to create a better Sather from
Ruby (i.e. to speed it up, of course in the very far future) than
correcting Sather. The other direction would just create a faster
Ruby with worse syntax.

Best Regards, Christian