On Apr 24, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Robert Feldt wrote:

> On 4/24/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain / segment7.net> wrote:
>> On Apr 24, 2006, at 6:00 AM, Robert Feldt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> If you read
>>>
>>> http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2006q2/003036.html
>>>
>>> right after reading about and checking out
>>>
>>> http://www.mike-austin.com/inertia/
>>>
>>> do you also think about an effort to use the latter to create
>>> something in the line of the former to give something like in the
>>> subject? ;)
>>>
>>> Comments? Good? Bad? Worth the effort? What about moving FreeRIDE  
>>> onto
>>> something like Inertia? Much more freedom in what can be
>>> visualized/done since there is no GUI framework restricting us...
>>
>> What do you envision when you say "Squeak like"?
>>
> I'm not yet at the stage where it is time to set down the spec... ;)
>
>> In the context of the second link it looks like you want something
>> like persistent irb with a fancier editor.
>>
>> If you want Squeak's Ruby written in Ruby with a cool editor and
>> persistent everything so you can change it all then help out with
>> Metaruby.
>>
> I guess here I was more meaning Squeak-like in the form of Morphic
> (Squeak GUI widgets) in Ruby with a OpenGL backend but other parts of
> Squeak may apply.

Ah, ok.

> When it comes to implementing Ruby itself I am interested in that and
> try to follow your progress from time to time (I find it a bit
> confusing with the name MetaRuby though since Matju used that way back
> in 2000-2002? Or are you reusing code/ideas?).

Matju's Metaruby has different goals and has been dead for over 3 years:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/lib/metaruby/

> I haven't realized your are also interested in the IDE side of  
> things. Will check.

I'm not interested in an IDE, I was just curious what you meant due  
to the two different contexts.

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