Re: Why Ruby interpreter is writed in c (not in c++)?

On 11 Jul 2008, at 16:10, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Eleanor McHugh wrote:
There actually was a time when even the use of C was in doubt for
embedded systems. An awful lot of Forth, Pascal, PL/M and
assembler code was written before C compilers were good enough.
Now, of course, the C compilers are good enough to build a high-
performance Forth environment in C. :)
Heretic ;p

I'm not the heretic -- the heretics are the people who added "labels
as values" to gcc, and the gForth team that exploited it.


I never did understand why both K&R and ANSI-C lacked computed gotos -
it's not like C does much else to protect a programmer :)

Ellie

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