From: Shashank Date <ADATE@...>
Date: 2002-08-19T05:44:17+09:00
Subject: Re: What Ruby needs.


> Wonder what other  *** infuential  **** Rubyists think ...
Oops ! Here is a typo:       ^^^^^^^ was supposed to be "influential"


> "Thaddeus L. Olczyk" <olczyk@interaccess.com> wrote in message
> news:3d61fe91.348210671@nntp.interaccess.com...
> > I use Ruby quite often for scripting and what use it more often for
> > general stuff except that it has two things missing:
> >
> > 1) A compiler. Something that takes Ruby code down to as fast as it
> >    can  go ( something like the compilers that come with some Lisps
> >    and with OCaml).
> > 2) An image/core like Smalltalk and Lisp where I can define things
> >     then save core and pick up where I left off later.
>
>