From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-02-09T15:54:27+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby interpreter written in ruby..


On Feb 8, 2009, at 17:51 , Dylan Evans wrote:

> I see that squeak uses a C translator for it's implementation which is
> kinda cool, and the lisps use either a bootstrap implementation or a
> translator.I was just thinking of a plain ruby interpreter entirely  
> in ruby,
> which really would be pointless.

there you go using that word ("pointless") again... As someone who  
worked on smalltalk for many years and was working on metaruby before  
I was professionally working on rubinius, I have to highly disagree.  
I'm gonna leave it at that tho.