From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-22T03:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?

Hi,

In message "Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?"
    on 03/07/22, "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com> writes:

|Some more Rite questions if its OK :-)

For this time only. ;-)

|* will Rite be developed publicly.. Or will you keep it souce secret ?

From my experience and observation, an open source software needs to
have running code before the ball rolling to success.  I think I need
to work alone until the first running version.

|* still use Ruby license scheme ?

It will be open source software for sure.  License terms may be
changed.

|* do you need help?  Say what we should do and we will do it :-)

This is very important.  Listen carefully.

From the reason I stated above, I feel like I will work alone.
But if someone shows his talent, and comes up with his own _good_
implementation of new Ruby earlier than me, and if he is willing to
contribute his code, and if he allows me to hack and chop his code to
make it "Rite", I will name it "Rite".  And he will be honored for
ever.

|* will it be like Ruby.. Or will there be minor/major differences ?

There will be some incompatibility.  This is a big chance to fix what
I've done wrong.  For example, block parameters will be local to the
block.  But these changes will be implemented in 1.9 first for
migration purpose.

|* will Rite use Mark&Sweep GC or something else ?

It will use generational mark and sweep.

							matz.