From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T02:35:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Other languages to try?

Bill Kelly wrote:
> 
> From: "Eleanor McHugh" <eleanor@games-with-brains.com>
>>
>> I don't enjoy it so I probably shouldn't recommend it, but C is  
>> definitely the place to see how not to solve most programming 
>> problems  and hence a necessity for any multilingual programmer's 
>> toolkit.
> 
> :D awesome
> 
> What I periodically daydream about is a portable
> subset of ruby within ruby which is geared toward
> displaying 1_000_000+ polygons on the screen at
> 60Hz (for example.  {As we can do currently in C.})
> 
> I love the concept of RubyInline, (or the integration
> of JRuby with Java), but instead of Java or C I would
> die for being able to write some little loops in some
> ruby sub-language (where things were as static typed
> as necessary, but speed was #1 priority however it was
> achieved.)

This was one of my original intents with Duby:

http://kenai.com/projects/duby/pages/Home

But I haven't had time to get back to it. It's a mostly Ruby-like syntax 
but statically typed and as fast as Java. I had been working on a C 
backend, but nobody doing C seemed interested at the time.

- Charlie