Whither SmallScript? (was Re: Integer micro-benchmarks)

[David Simmons]

"Andrew Hunt" <andy at toolshed.com> wrote in message
news:slrn9ehfbt.frk.andy at workbench.toolshed.com...
> > Out of the dirth of scripting languages available,
> > Python and PHP are at the top of our well-known candidate list. There
are
> > parties who have either expressed an interest in or are working on
languages
> > such as Scheme, JScript, and Basic.
>
> Have you taken a look at Ruby?

Yes, I have indeed. I've known about Ruby and monitored it for a couple of
years now. I have the Ruby book and I've watched its attention rise and then
fall relatively quickly. Its newsgroup/discussion lists are pretty dardn
quiet and the website is not particularly active -- maybe I've just not been
monitoring the right areas?

>
> It's remarkably clean, dynamic, fully OO, and open source.  I find I can
> wrote more code in Ruby faster, and with fewer errors, than any other
> language I know (and I've tried quite a few).

That's high praise indeed.

SmallScript is itself a complete and rich language, which I not so humbly
will suggest to you exceeds the facilities and ease of use of Ruby.

But truth to tell that is not the real issue in selecting the scripting
languages on the above list. The principal criteria are first and foremost
popularity (user-base and depth/breadth of the frameworks/codebase) and
second the clarity and capacity of the language. Perl would have been on the
list but, given a choice, it didn't meet my second criteria.

>
> For more info, try:
>
> www.ruby-lang.org
>
> and
>
> www.rubycentral.com
>
>
> Enjoy!

Cheers!

-- Dave S.

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