From: Brad Cox <bcox@...>
Date: 2002-07-21T07:04:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Objective C backend for Ruby?

At 5:45 AM +0900 7/21/02, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>I was looking at the translator aspect, translating Ruby to 
>Objective-C. That was the part that was the real non-starter, 
>courtesy of continuations. (I've got a paper or two kicking around 
>about some of the interesting things that the Scheme folks had to do 
>to get continuations going with what's essentially a C environment. 
>It's... interesting)

If I might throw out a suggestion, if its not broke, don't fix it. 
Ruby's written in C so its ALREADY written in Objective-C. Leave that 
alone.

Ruby DOES need a better user interface. This is Objective-C's 
object-oriented strong suit. Focus your energy there, on where Ruby 
is broken, not where its intact.
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