From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T00:10:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby interpreter is writed in c (not in c++)?

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Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>> There actually was a time when even the use of C was in doubt for 
>> embedded systems. An awful lot of Forth, Pascal, PL/M and assembler 
>> code was written before C compilers were good enough. Now, of course, 
>> the C compilers are good enough to build a high-performance Forth 
>> environment in C. :)
> 
> Heretic ;p

I'm not the heretic -- the heretics are the people who added "labels as 
values" to gcc, and the gForth team that exploited it.

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com/

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- 
Alfr��d R��nyi via Paul Erd��s

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