From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2008-06-08T21:30:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Smalltalk

On 8 Jun 2008, at 12:46, Nicolas Pelletier wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org>  
> wrote:
>> But it seems as if this whole VM or rather image thing is hardly used
>> outside Smalltalk. Which sounds like a shame, unless I missed  
>> something
>> perhaps? Can ruby have such an image based system additionally?
>
> There are Lisp or ML systems that use images, too.

Not to mention MOO (as in LambdaMOO) and Forth.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
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