From: ThoML <micathom@...>
Date: 2008-06-08T20:33:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Smalltalk

> But it seems as if this whole VM or rather image thing is hardly used
> outside Smalltalk.

Lisp suffers from this approach too.

Anyway, I think you might like to read this for a smalltalk
perspective:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubyIsSmalltalkMinusMinus

It was on reddit recently.

> Can ruby have such an image based system additionally?

No!