From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-25T08:29:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20324] Re: Backwards language

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20307] Backwards language"
    on 01/08/25, "Sean Middleditch" <elanthis@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

|I'm wondering how people think of my idea.  I am developing, currently,
|nothing but the back end.  I haven't the slightest clue what the actual
|language will look like, even though the backend is already capable of
|executing pretty simple code (generating byte code with a C API).  The idea
|is that I am putting all of my effort into developing a very lean and fast
|backend design solely for embedding into applications (mainly games).  The
|result is a fairly powerful backend that is language independent.

I like this idea.  This is similar to my Ruby 2.0 implementation
concept, code named "Rite", and currently nothing but vaporware.

							matz.