From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T12:37:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in Ruby

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:15:18 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>>> Over on the pragprog list, Ron Jeffries suggested that it might be 
>>> interesting to implement Ruby in Ruby. I thought -- but could not find 
>>> quickly -- that someone had started such a project. I realise right now
>>> that this might be much slower, but it would seem to me to make it 
>>> easier to make something like Rite or some other bytecode system
>>> possible, wouldn't it?
> Maybe I'm beeing stupid but I can't see the advantage in doing this other
> than intellectual challenge and interest.  Is there any other? 

My understanding of the technique is that it would make it much easier to 
then translate Ruby to another backend (e.g., Parrot, JVM, etc.). I'll be 
the first to admit that I don't really understand it -- I'm not a language 
"specialist" that way.

-austin