From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-09-19T23:38:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not a Ruby 1.8 to 2.x Code Convertor?

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On 9/19/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>
> Robert Dober wrote:
> > On 9/19/06, Brad Tilley <rtilley@vt.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> > We may in fact do something like this. No one has ruled it out.
> >> > The fact is that 2.0 is still an indefinite amount of time in the
> >> > future.
> >>
> >> As is PERL 6. They may never come to be.
> >
> >
> > Indeed, if memory serves LW predictated  perl versions to approach 2*pi
> > assymptotically,
> > maybe it will be pi+e :(, but I hope not, perl6 will be a wounderful
> beast
> > even if one might not want to use it.
> > Robert
>
> So the Perl version number approaches 8*atan(1) the Python version
> number approaches exp(1), and the Ruby version number approaches sqrt(4)
> as t approaches infinity? :) :)
>
> Seriously, though, I wonder what the bottleneck is? Is it Parrot -- are
> the Parrot folks trying to be too many things by supporting both Python
> and Ruby in addition to Perl, especially given that the Ruby community
> appears to be more interested in YARV and JRuby than "waiting for
> Parrot/Cardinal?"
>
> I almost wanted to suggest Parrot one day and than I thaught twice and
thrice and concluded that (a) I was not educated enough in the stuff
(although I still believe that a register based VM should outperform a stac=
k
based nowadays) and (b) I did not follow Parrot closley enough.
I stopped steeping by the perl6 site about a year ago as there was nothing
going on, time to have a look for sure.
http://perl6.org/

Edward can we do a Ruby Quiz:
Write a Perl6 interpreter in Ruby, it has to be faster than Ruby of course
;)

Cheers
Robert


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Deux choses sont infinies : l'univers et la b=EAtise humaine ; en ce qui
concerne l'univers, je n'en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue.

- Albert Einstein

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