From: Jon Dowland <jon@...>
Date: 2002-09-29T03:48:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk or mod_ruby or what ?? (ot)

Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com> wrote in
news:20020926180906.GD6382@swordfish: 

> So anyway, I agree there should be a tutorial, and I'm more likely to
> actually do something about it if I don't have to do all the work
> myself. What role would you see yourself taking on this project?

I once asked in <something>.java.advocacy if someone could demonstrate a 
GUI java app that wasn't painfully slow... I was recommended two, one of 
which was jEdit, which I have since tried and its just as slow as 
anything else I've seen :( from my beginner pov, since at the 
fundamental, machine code level, there is no concept of a class, anything 
that is compiled down should have such concepts removed - since java 
still has a class concept post-compilation, the compilation stage doesn't 
seem to have much purpose...

Does the concept of a class exist in ruby, once a program has been 
reduced to the decision-tree level? (apologies if I have this ludicrously 
wrong) 


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Jonathan Dowland