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Lisp and Ruby

Posted by kdawson on from the sittin'-in-a-tree dept.

sdelmont writes "The developers of Rubinius, an experimental Ruby interpreter inspired by SmallTalk, have been discussing the possibility of adding a Lisp dialect to their VM. Pat Eyler collected some ideas and opinions from the people involved and it makes for some interesting reading. For many, Ruby already is an acceptable Lisp, and the language itself started as a 'perlification' of Lisp (even Matz says so) so it is perhaps fitting and might help explain why the whole idea feels right. Now, if someone added support for VB and gave it the respect it deserves, the world would be a better place."

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  1. Posted First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is the first post. You fail it!

  2. perlifcation of VB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The correct correlate question is: Would the world be a better place if we perlified a Turning Machine?.