Ranieri Teixeira wrote: > [Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] > > Hi, > I've downloaded the sources of Ruby 1.8.7-p22 and compiled it with MS CL > compiler. Ok, very well. But, the code is in structured C, not in object > oriented C++. Why? C++ doesn't provides the sabe low level facilities as C > and the powerful abstractions, and good practices from the OOP paradigm? Because the implementers made that design choice. > Thanks > -- Ron Fox NSCL Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1321