Re: The development tendency of compilation tech?

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 01:41 -0500, Nick wrote:
> Except maybe where there is lots to be gained by more performant and
> non-conformant application software, there is reduced incentive to
> accept or develop anything like a new language,


Hm, from where I sit, the Ruby language is relatively new and is coming
on strong. Also, it's introducing lots of people to all sorts of nifty
things that have been around for a long time, e.g., closures.


> let alone compile it.


One of the more recent Ruby developments is YARV, which compiles Ruby to
a bytecode format. All the usual compiler theory things apply, even if
the target is a VM rather than a "real machine".


So perhaps all hope is not yet lost :-)


Yours,


Tom

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