From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-08-18T02:11:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Prototype vs Class inheritance,

Brian Mitchell schrieb:
> On 8/17/05, Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> wrote:
> 
>>Brian Mitchell schrieb:
>>
>>>Very interesting. Thanks for the link. This is all ironic right now as
>>>I am currently working on implementing a complete Ruby environment
>>>inside/using Io. It has been interesting on how easy it was to lay the
>>>class based design of Ruby over the prototype based Io. I am not quite
>>>done solidifying the final translation between the two but when I get
>>>further I will throw the code up for consumption.
>>
>>Since I'm interested in both languages, too, could you describe in a few
>>more words what you are doing and what you want to achieve with that? In
>>any case I'm looking forward to your code.
> 
> Sure. I am currently implementing Ruby's built-in's as primitives
> using pure Io. That is a big task. You never realize how many methods
> some of these classes have until you try to write them all... :)
> ...

Brian, thanks for your detailed answer. This is a big task indeed, 
reminding me of the Pugs project. Though I find this really interesting, 
I think that in the next couple of months I won't be able to help.

Good luck and keep us informed from time to time.

Regards,
Pit