I’ve been wondering the past few days about this sort of thing,
especially with Oz, whose documentation explicitly says that much of the
language is syntactic sugar over its small kernel language.
However, it seems one would have to have fairly advanced knowledge of a
language in order to be able to implement another language in it (e.g.,
write the OCaml or Oz or Lisp/Scheme syntactic sugar that would
implement Ruby on top of those languages).
Al
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-----Original Message-----
From: MikkelFJ [mailto:mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:55 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml
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Indeed I have many times though of implementing Ruby or a subset of Ruby
in
OCaml - it is the perfect language for the job.
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