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Matz Bored With Ruby, Moves On, Everyone Change Your Cloaks to Green #

by why in cult

From Matz:

I’m pleased to announce you the first public release of emerald 0.1.

Emerald is an object oriented language with constraints and logic features, inspired from prolog, Oz, CSP and Hyper/J.

I started this as an hack since ruby is becoming less fun. It will not be as good as ruby, but please try it out while we wait for Rite.

This is alpha stuff, I wasn’t able to load it onto anything with an x86 processor. I had to pull out one of my old solid-state frying pans—but now I’m cooking.

Lots of great reaction from the community, who understandably have questions aplenty:

Hal Fulton asks, “Very nice… but will it scale?”

Tom Copeland says, “I feel gillty for recommending Ruby now.”

Good stuff but my favorite is Matz’ mission statement above:

It will not be as good as ruby, but please try it out.

Matz reveals: this was not him!

Of course, I didn’t make such a language, it’s obvious that the message is a lie if you see the link. What is important is that I didn’t write this E-mail. Anyone can’t understand unless seeing Message-Id, or notice there is no period after signature of “matz”. Because fml converts the time zone into JST, I think the credibility goes up rather. Excellent quite.

If I remember right there was a false announce by my name before, I can’t find it.

Translated from ~matz by babie, who is great.

said on 01 Apr 2005 at 12:55

We’re porting Rails to it right now, keep an eye out for FishingForEmeralds, it won’t be as good as Rails, but at least it scales!

.adam
said on 01 Apr 2005 at 13:47

It has it’s own system, called the Bony Framework. You can fill it out with the skin™ and flesh™ applications. In runs on an operating system that can move data upstream and downstream. Applications can be reproduced using “sexual” programming.

All very advanced! “It just works, swimmingly”

said on 01 Apr 2005 at 16:35

wow, I’ve been staring two minutes at my feedreader wondering: when the hell did I subscribe to aquamarinehanded ?

Anyway, you may find some “emerald” traces in the old messages for japanese ruby ml.

Not that I understand them, but I think matz may have been working on this for a decade. Maybe this is the reason it will be so much scalable, it has a great run-up.

said on 01 Apr 2005 at 17:36

Will it support Fish Typing?

said on 01 Apr 2005 at 19:27

Fish typing is a code smell indicator!

said on 01 Apr 2005 at 20:05

HAHA !! You guyz have been MAJERLY f00lz0r3d!! OMG YOU sHOULDA SEEM THE LOOK ON YOUR HTTP REQUESTSS !! THEY WALKED IN HERE LIKE “GET / HTTP /1.1” AND I KEPT A STRAIGHTFACE THA WHOLE TIME !!nnn heh

said on 01 Apr 2005 at 21:51

I didn’t take the bait

said on 02 Apr 2005 at 10:00

One guy unsubscribed.

said on 03 Apr 2005 at 00:57

I fell for it hook line and sinker

said on 03 Apr 2005 at 16:21

My nose is bleeding.

said on 03 Apr 2005 at 21:13

I knew the post was a joke but did not know it was not from Matz… Look the message ID!

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