From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-01-01T23:18:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list)

On 12/31/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Yeah, I know -- there's no such thing as the one best way to do
> something. And there's nothing wrong with designing the Parrot virtual
> machine as a register machine because the majority of people who will be
> programming at that level are Motorola 68000 assembly programmers
> either. :) But there *is* something wrong with implementing a *new* Ruby
> virtual machine in Forth or Pascal or pseudo-M68000 assembler when the
> majority of the people who will be programming at that level are C
> programmers. :) C and the JVM and the CLR are "good enough", with the
> possible exception of concurrency primitives.

On the other hand, a lot of people have flocked to Haskell simply to
hack on Pugs. I'm sure if a really good alt-lang-based ruby vm was
developed, people would learn said lang just to hack on it.

m.