On 2/15/07, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
one of the problems I have with Ruby [is] that it's got those kinds of quirks that currently make it difficult to fully understand it, and difficult to make another Ruby implementation. I imagine a lot of the quirks will go away with time as Ruby matures, though.
I agree those quirks are present. While I still love Ruby despite them, I want them to go away too. There's been a recent surge in alternative implementations of Ruby and from the conversations I've followed, they've run into those quirks as well. Fortunately, the multiple implementors (including the canonical implementations of pre-1.9 C-ruby and post-1.9 YARV) have begun to coordinate amongst themselves. At the last RubyConf there was an Implementor's Summit, and at the upcoming MountainWest RubyConf (held in our own Salt Lake) there will be another summit. Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo (JRuby), Evan Phoenix (rubinius -- ruby written in ruby with a smalltalkish VM), John Lam (RubyCLR), and our own BYU alumnus Kevin Tew (Cardinal -- Ruby on Parrot) will all be present. Ruby has some maturing to do and has had growing pains, especially recently. I believe the future continues to be bright, however. Jacob Fugal /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
