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(Notes from the plane home from OOPSLA/RubyConf)

1) Irons in the fire:

• Dave Simmons of SmallScript fame wants to work on our system to produce ST80 bytecode from ruby.


• A number of people want to improve RI, hacks, and PT, esp for windows. This will help us get more people using them.


• John Lam is interested for his ruby/CLR bridge.


• A number of people wanted to look at ruby2ruby to do refactoring tools.


• Don Roberts/John Brandt are extending their current refactoring toolset to generate entire tool suites for other languages. We should bug them for ruby in a month or so.


• Made some good business contacts. Mainly consultants like Russ (bay area pattern's group

2) Potential new projects/demos:

• irb state saver (done, in 8 lines)


• r2yarv / r2st80 bytecode translator


• stock market toys/tools


• good demo on how to write refactoring tools for ruby


• fucking get over it and write a ruby parser/lexer, warts and all


• rubyholic website


• code coverage tool


• rule based tracing


• release zero2rails


• pure ruby PNG (maybe translatable to C)


• BFTS - new name of rubicon fork