From: "DEBAUN, STEVE [AG-Contractor/2400]" <steve.debaun@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T12:05:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

> >> How about we rewrite the ruby runtime as a combination of macros and
> >> functions in Lisp, use ParseTree to get the S-Exp representation of a
> >> ruby program and then feed that into our Lisp compiler? Instant
> >> speedy ruby! ;)
> >
> > (snip Things Man Was Not Meant to Know)
> >
> > So, it looks like Lisp to me! Now, some macros?
> >
> > Douglas
> 
> What scares (excites?) me is that this looks almost close enough to
> work already.

I am both fascinated and horrified.  My beautiful Ruby!!!!  Scarred by the
Lisp-rape of a thousand parentheses.

I can't watch.

sd