From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2001-10-22T11:08:54+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22925] Re: SmallScript, etc (was: Re: I need some help!!) In article , Rich Kilmer wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ned Konz [mailto:ned@bike-nomad.com] >> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 2:37 PM >> To: ruby-talk ML >> Subject: [ruby-talk:22888] Re: I need some help!! >> . >> . >> . >> One dialect of Smalltalk that bears watching in the next few >> months is QKS' >> SmallScript. This is a very ambitious project with probably the >> most advanced >> VM technology currently available. It is more or less a superset of >> Smalltalk, and will also run in the Microsoft .NET environment. >> >> David Simmons has done very interesting work on SmallScript. He's posted >> quite a few times on comp.lang.smalltalk; you might want to read >> his postings. >> >> Interestingly, David has also been interested in Ruby... > >..and David attended the Ruby conference. David's SmallScript VM is >more interesting in more than just architecture (which I believe is >incredible). He is looking to support multiple languages atop the VM. >Microsoft's CLR does not currently meet the needs that dynamic languages >(such as Ruby) impose. We had some interesting talks about support for >Ruby on the SmallScript VM. > >As Matz works toward the next-generation bytecode-based Ruby (Rite), I >hope David's VM is seriously evaluated as a base platform. > I just checked the smallscript website and it looks like the SmallScript VM is not OpenSource, so how can we use it for Ruby? Phil