On Mon, 28 May 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
Hi,

> Ah, that's just because I'm not smart enough to handle meta.  I'm not
> good at higher order thingy, really.
> 
> But look at the bright side.  My stupidity is a source of Ruby's good
> attributes.  If I were smart like others, Ruby would be something
> totaly different, like Scheme, OCaml, or Python, maybe.
> 
And a bright side it sure is. Even I'm not sure I can agree with your
stupidity claims (since I'm judging you by your creation which by any
objective standard would be judged smart) I'm glad you've found and
"installed" that special Ruby-ness and not any
other-programming-language-ness!

 > Note that I'm not agaist making Ruby in Ruby in any way.  I'd
even > like to help people working on it.  But I don't think I can keep
> motivation for it by myself.
> 
Then its ok to bug you with some questions from time to time then?
Right now they will probably be on Ruby grammar but I'l be back... ;-)

Regards,

Robert