From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-16T03:38:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15202] Re: Discussion on new Ruby features

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15185] Re: Discussion on new Ruby features"
    on 01/05/16, Christian Szegedy <szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de> writes:

|Speed can constrain the usability...:)

|Of course. it is only true for a small part of the code, but it is 
|still true. I would like to write as few C-extensions as possible.

I personaly encourage people to write extension if they need
performance.  That's why I worked a lot to make writing extension
easier.

|I don't give up hope.. :)

You don't have to.  But it might change Ruby's nature.  It might no
longer be Ruby, but Ruby-masked Sather, maybe.

							matz.