From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-02-28T02:58:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing myself and my interest in ruby


Mark Hubbart said:
> Which is the reason for the language subset - within the subset, there
> would be no need for including the runtime; it could just be compiled
> to machine code.

I believe that this approach was used with Squeak Smalltalk.  They wrote
the basic Smalltalk system in a subset of smalltalk that could be easily
translated to C. (See the "Brief History" section at
http://www.squeak.org/about/index.html).

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