Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:15:07 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: roelof@nisser.com, stephen@math.missouri.edu, beholder@unios.dhs.org, nunotex@pt-quorum.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Message-ID: <3C41F8DB.9070706@eboa.com> References: <E16Pl41-00087C-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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Pete French wrote: >>Ruby is a true blooded OO language in the spirit of Smalltalk. Perl >>is not. Ruby invites to OO design, perl less so since it's been >> > > So would a rewrite in Objective-C be more viable since > > a) this is also an OO language in the spirit of smalltalk > b) it is already part of the base system > ... In so far as porting it, I would expect so. As to the inclusion in the base system... <g>. From what I remember from Objective-C that's still quite different from Ruby, even though conceptually more akin. Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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