From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-29T06:29:35+09:00
Subject: Re: R

Hi Bob,

Thanks for sharing the information.  I will especially be interested in
its C-code generation capability (will it be much different than the
current rb2c?)  Please let us all know when it becomes available for
distribution.

With respect to R, honestly speaking, I kind of doubt it myself about its
possibility to materialize.  Because of my time constraint, for me
personally, I think my "shortest path" will be to modify the Ruby gc
myself, as it is currently the bottleneck in my application.  (I will
simply do a "direct attack" on the problem instead of creating a "more
elegant" solution. :)   Well, Larry Wall decided to overkill the sed/awk
problem and in the process Perl was born...)

Regards,

Bill
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Bob Calco <robert.calco@verizon.net> wrote:

> I will be including, however, several samples, including a Ripper-like Ruby
> extension for using the API in Ruby, a C-code generator, and a Ruby static
> analyzer.

> At FreeRIDE we will eventually be using this to implement an advanced source
> browser for the IDE, to facilitate intellisense-like functionality.

> WRT "R" - I don't know how I feel about it yet. I like to think my Ruby/FE
> will make it so much easier for somebody to create a generator on the
> backend that learning a new Ruby-fied C-like hybrid language would be
> unnecessary. I'd just as soon compile real Ruby straight to object or byte
> code or even real C. On the other hand, I'd be interested to see where (and
> if) R goes...