From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 13 13:15:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from frl.nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA33737B402 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:15:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof.nisser.com [10.0.0.2]) by frl.nisser.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E08DEA8B; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:15:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3C41F8DB.9070706@eboa.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:15:07 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete French Cc: roelof@nisser.com, stephen@math.missouri.edu, beholder@unios.dhs.org, nunotex@pt-quorum.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... . 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