From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-01-02T09:35:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list)

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:18:22PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
> 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.
> 
That's the best part about rubinius. It is an alt-lang ruby vm, where
the alt-lang just happens to be ruby! Brilliant!
> m.