Le 8/4/2005, "Peter Suk" <peter.kwangjun.suk / mac.com> a ñÄrit:
>On Apr 8, 2005, at 8:19 AM, George wrote:
>
>> Avi / Peter -- thanks for providing the feedback I was looking for.
>> Ruby and Smalltalk do indeed sound like a good match. I remember Robert
>> Feldt saying a few years ago that he'd done some experiments with Ruby
>> on Smallscript's VM that looked promising.
>>
>> Peter said:
>>> From now on, if you are completely ignorant of Smalltalk,
>>> I will cease answering these questions here.
>>
>> Yikes! I _am_ almost completely ignorant of Smalltalk (I'm know the
>> basic concepts of the language, but I've never programmed in it), but
>> I've done some work on VMs and was genuinely interested in the answers.
>
>Sorry, it was late at night, and that came off harsher than it should
>have.  It's just that I'm finding myself essentially repeating myself.
>The feedback has informed my thinking and has been valuable, but I
>should just tell people to go and find and read docs. I will get around
>to posting them on the RubyForge site.  This project is named Alumina.
>Ruby is just one crystalline form of Alumina.

Thank you for that apology! Please understand you are speaking to
a group of (mostly) interested _ruby_ developers, many of whom, I,
for instance, have little or no experience with Smalltalk let alone
its VM infrastructure. You announced the topic so I think it is fair
to expect you to answer any reasonable questions from your audience
considering our collective background.

The project certainly seems interesting to me; I am somewhat reserved
about it as I would rather see as much of the available talent to go
to YARV development rather than various different projects but, then
again, there seems to be a lot of talent to go around. Just produce
code and ideas that can be reused! :)

Good luck!

>--Peter

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