From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-04-22T19:17:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on .NET (was Re: A Ruby WishList)

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby on .NET (was Re: A Ruby WishList)"
    on 04/04/22, "James, Roshan (Cognizant)" <JRoshan@blr.cognizant.com> writes:

|I however request you to put up reasons why Ruby wasn't targetted for
|the CLR sometime - even if that reason was simply 'I want to enjoy
|writing my own VM'.

  * I want to enjoy writing my own VM.

  * I don't want to restrict the language design by VM feature.

The latter is more important.  When I design new feature for Rite,
I don't want to wait other projects (say .NET) to add VM function.

							matz.