From: Ranieri Teixeira Date: 2008-07-11T09:45:07+09:00 Subject: Why Ruby interpreter is writed in c (not in c++)? ------=_Part_3471_1103287.1215737353217 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I've downloaded the sources of Ruby 1.8.7-p22 and compiled it with MS CL compiler. Ok, very well. But, the code is in structured C, not in object oriented C++. Why? C++ doesn't provides the sabe low level facilities as C and the powerful abstractions, and good practices from the OOP paradigm? Thanks -- Ranieri Barros Teixeira UFPA - FACOMP - CBCC http://multiligado.blogspot.com/ ------=_Part_3471_1103287.1215737353217--