[Squeakfoundation]Order of business ...

Ned Konz squeakfoundation@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:53:10 -0800


On Thursday 14 November 2002 10:36 pm, danielv@netvision.net.il wrote:
> But I don't actually know these communities.. more data, anyone?

Avi and I (and probably others) are members of the Ruby community.

Randal Schwartz, I and several others are members of the Perl=20
community.

One long-running discussion in those two communities has to do with a=20
common bytecode interpreter/jitter (like Parrot); Squeak has been=20
pretty independent along these lines.

I think that many Rubyists would be easily attracted to Squeak due to=20
the similarities in the object model and its nicer environment; don't=20
know about Perl people.

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