From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-01-23T09:16:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Questions on Rite and embedding

Hello Jeremy,

Friday, January 23, 2004, 12:10:00 AM, you wrote:

JH> I read Matz's "How Ruby Sucks"
JH> <URL:http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/rc2003/mgp00003.html> and I
JH> noticed he mentions Ruby suffers from "Bad Embedding", but AFAICT says
JH> nothing about Rite will address this.  So I am wondering how does Ruby
JH> currently suck at embedding?  And how will Rite do it better?

JH> FWIW I think it sucks that (a) there is precisely one global
JH> interpreter, and (b) there is namespace pollution (eg. TYPE instead of
JH> RUBY_TYPE).  I think Tcl does it better by having an explicit
JH> Tcl_Interp type for interpreter handles and prefixing every Tcl type
JH> with "Tcl_".  So I would like to know whether this is what Matz was
JH> talking about.  Will Rite improve things by being more Tcl-ish in this
JH> respect?  Or am I missing the real point here?

I can only wish that Matz take a look at deepth look at TCL before
doing anything. TCL/TK is from the implementation (not from the
language) still lightyears ahead from ruby.

-- 
Best regards,
 Lothar                            mailto:mailinglists@scriptolutions.com