From: Warren Brian Noronha <warren@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T14:15:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Porting from other Langs (Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?)


one wish would be to see tvision lib being developed by the original developer or the community. its a amasing and powerfull console ui lib
some one should really help bring it up to speed.

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 01:11:13 +0900
Peter Kwangjun Suk <suk@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:10:00 +0900
> Warren Brian Noronha <warren@freedomink.org> wrote:
> 
> > dear devels
> >  it would also be nice to have all the libs assorted like 
> > 	File/
> > 		Filetools.....
> > 			......
> > 	IO/
> > 		Pipe.....
> > 	IPC/
> > 		Msg
> > 		SysV......
> 
> In the Smalltalk community, there are a variety of open license libraries which could be ported quite rapidly.  (Smalltalk is Homomorphic to a subset of Ruby, so porting is mostly mindless.)  
> 
> In particular, you Ruby-istas might be interested in many of the things on this page:  
> 
> 	<http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com:8080/CincomSmalltalkWiki/VW+GoodiesParc>
> 
> You'll have to check on licenses by individual package.  
> 
> --Peter Kwangjun Suk
> 
> (P.S. Someone mentioned cryptographic algorithms.  At one time the VisualWorks 5i implementations of some block ciphers (like DES) were running 3% *faster* than RSA Data securities' DLLs in C.  Yes, that's right, 3% faster than the same algorithm in C.  And these were pure Smalltalk implementions.  Just shows what you can do with great generational GC, good design, and a great JIT VM.  I happen to be working on running Ruby on Smalltalk VMs.)  
> 
>