From: feoh@...
Date: 2002-04-11T23:05:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Carbon ruby dead?

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Joe Mason wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:35:38 +0900
> From: Joe Mason <jcmason@student.math.uwaterloo.ca>
> Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: Re: Is Carbon ruby dead?
>
> In article <f69ccee4.0204101929.1b7afaa3@posting.google.com>,
> Matt M Sykes <mattmsykes@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >Hmmm perhaps you misunderstand.  I need a Carbonized ruby interpreter;
> >whatever wraps over that is beside the point.
>
> I'm not clear on what 'Carbonized' means in a Ruby interpreter.  Is Carbon
> not a UI interface?  The Ruby interpreter doesn't have a UI as such.
> Doesn't the Unix interpreter work under OSX?
>
> Joe

No, Carbon is not a UI.  It's an API designed to allow most Classic apps
to run under OS-X with a recompile and some minor porting effort due to
some unimplemented APIs.

-Chris