From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T04:32:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Reia -- a Ruby fork?

Trans wrote:
> Has anyone played around with Reia?
> 
>   http://github.com/tarcieri/reia/tree/master
> 
> The syntax looks so close to Ruby's in most cases, it looks more like
> a Ruby fork built on the Erlang VM.

The syntax is Ruby-like, but the execution model seems very close to
Smalltalk-71.

In fact, the whole *point* of Reia is *not* to be a Ruby fork: Tony
wrote the Revactor library for Ruby, but realized that the actor model
and Ruby's object model don't mesh well. That's why he wrote Reia in
the first place.

jwm