From: "Pete McBreen, McBreen.Consulting" <mcbreenp@...>
Date: 2000-12-13T04:40:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7102] Re: Ruby in Ruby

Dave Thomas wrote in message ...
>"Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>.. on the idea of multiple front-ends to the Ruby internals
>
>Following on from this, what are the pros and cons of MSIL generation
>for .NET. I must admit I assumed that MSIL/CLR wouldn't be flexible
enough
>to support the object model, but I read recently that there's a
>Smalltalk implementation, so maybe it's doable.


But is it still Smalltalk?

I remember Bertrand Meyer saying something to the effect that in order
to make Eiffel.NET work ISE had to make some minor changes to Eiffel, so
in effect Eiffel.NET is a dialect/variant of Eiffel.

Ruby in Ruby sounds cool, but for me the value of Ruby is that it is "an
OO scripting language". I'm willing to trade a lot of speed to keep the
advantage of portable, dynamic scripting, after all it's not as if there
aren't enough compiled languages out there:-)

Pete
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