From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T05:21:38+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

Dave Thomas wrote:
> William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>Yes, garbage collector makes it easy for the programmer, but nothing good
>>comes without any cost.  Anyone dare to write a browser like Netscape in
>>Ruby?  Anyone dare to rewrite the Ruby parser in Ruby?
> 
> 
> I wrote parts of an X11 Window manager in Ruby, and RDoc uses the irb
> parser, written in Ruby.

Netscape, in its current state, requires quite a bit of daring to *use*. 
I always wear crash proof goggles, and compose long emails in another 
editor, before pasting into Mozilla or Netscape. If it had been written 
in Ruby, things might be different. And, by the way, it would probably 
also allow user extensions in ruby.