From: Matthias Georgi <matti.georgi@...>
Date: 2006-03-04T18:18:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on the mobile?

>Probably they have separated POSIX dependent functions into modules.
>In contrast Ruby took all-in-one approach, so that some kind of POSIX
>emulation layer is required on non POSIX platform (including mobile
>devices).  The Ruby approach is useful (no clumsy list of imports),
>but not the best for small devices.

The idea of a stripped down ruby, which just depends on ANSI-C,
is quite appealing. Is it possible to compile an interpreter without
Dir, File, IO, Process and other system stuff or are there
too many internal dependencies on POSIX?