From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-29T00:28:03+09:00
Subject: Re: R

Oh yes, in fact, this is one of our selling points, right?  We show the
world how much simpler to code in Ruby as compared to C, C++, or Java
(ugh, Java is the worst to write the simple hello, world program).

But I think the objective or the reasoning behind R is that, is the
current C syntax "the best" in terms of representing of what we can
achieve in terms of generating the resulting assembly/object code?  Can we
create some syntax that is similar to Ruby, with result of probably 80% of
the capability of C and probably 70% the speed of C, but that makes it
easier for the programmer to code?  Maybe such research will conclude that
such a thing is impossible, and that we just let C be C and Ruby be
Ruby.  But I guess we don't know until we try, right? :)   (Hey, where are
all those language experts...)

Regards,

Bill
- * The speed of C, the simplicity of Ruby * -
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dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> I don't know about the speed of C, but if you want the simplicity
> of Ruby:

>    puts "hello, world!"

> :-)