From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T22:34:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Is the Ruby executable written in C?

Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com> writes:

> Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> Is the Ruby executable written in C?
>
> It seems to be written in a version of C that I found a little
> difficult to read.  It uses old K&R style function declarations, and
> uses macros in places I'm not used to seeing them.  Honestly, I'd love
> to spend some time hacking the VM, but it looks prohibitively
> difficult.  Maybe someone will enlighten me. :)

The Perl source is worse.

*scnr*,
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