From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-12-01T06:33:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby language parser in ruby


On Nov 30, 2009, at 01:17 , David Masover wrote:

> On Sunday 29 November 2009 03:25:17 pm Ryan Davis wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 2009, at 10:29 , Marc Heiler wrote:
>>>> Was using ruby_parser, but now is also C... you know... ruby in ruby. :/
>>> 
>>> Awww...
>>> 
>>> I still thought rubinius was going with the pure ruby approach. :(
>> 
>> yeah. well. They left that idea FAR behind a long time ago.
> 
> I'm not sure they wanted to do that for everything, from the parsing to the 
> VM, though that would've been cool.

That was my understanding when I started working professionally on it.

> Probably the thing I love most about Rubinius, as it was when I last looked, 
> is that it fulfills some of the original promise of Ruby. When I first started looking at Ruby, people said "Most of Ruby is written in Ruby."

I've never ever heard such a thing uttered about ruby. It is beyond obvious when you look at any version of the tarball.