From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-10-07T18:38:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22186] Re: Let's work on Windows support

On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Furio R. Filoseta (tlf.) wrote:
> Who cares if they ditch the standard ? They will still have to be self
> compatible.

There will be MS.NET version 2 and that one will rely on undocumented
features and/or patents.

> Being Ruby a modern interpreter, it "compiles" to an intermediate
> language

No relationship to being modern, unless you consider LISP 1961 to be
modern.

> You can write the Ruby first-pass compiler in whatever language you
> fancy.

The issue is who has a reason and the time and the energy to write it. For
example, JVM is much more popular than MS-CLR right now and there still
isn't even a working Ruby-1.4-compatible interpreter for it.

> If this is so, where exactly is that we become puppets in the hands of
> BG and his band of merry men ?

All along, but you mostly feel it when you become their competition.

> I don't know, guys, there IS such thing as taking a revolution so far
> that it begins to resemble the overthrown regime. Starts with
> revolutionaries beginning to act in exactly the same way as their
> previous oppressors: This wont be done, because it is NOT OUR WAY !!!

I don't know who are the revolutionaries here, and what the overthrown
regime is, so maybe you could clarify that.

Whatever... any revolution is started by people who say: "this won't be
done, because it is not our way!". There is no such change of attitude at
any point.

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