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I wish we had an accurate spec for Ruby. RubySpec project is great, but we still let the language be defined in terms of MRI implementation.
by sshconnection 13y ago
I wish we had an accurate spec for Ruby. RubySpec project is great, but we still let the language be defined in terms of MRI implementation.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoSun started the trend when Guy Steele and Gilad Bracha (among others) wrote the initial Java Language Specification. Microsoft has a strong team of PL researchers, including Mads Torgersen and many people at MSRC (who published a paper on formalizing Async in ECOOP 2012), to do this work, which I think is very useful.