Pointless, time waste, unnecessary.
I love it!
This is very cool. I wonder how much of Ruby was actually implemented. Obviously a few things work, but I'm pretty sure you'd never get regex and hashtables and all the other piles of complex stuff in the standard lib working under those constraints.
I suppose coincidentally I just got my old IIc from my dad. Pretty fun. Just kind of working out how best to backup the disks I got, so the journey is just beginning.
Maybe eventually I'll get around to making a game or doing something weird like this. Great talk.
Pretty cool.
Can the Apple II run rust?
Design a byte code like Sweet 16 or UCSD Pascal, and compile Ruby to that.
It would certainly be more space/time efficient than Manx Aztec C, which was terrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C
Hilarious discussion on the talk page -- I used Aztec C but I have not vanished yet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aztec_C#WHO_vanished%3F
I had a Legend Industries 128KDE memory expansion card on my Apple ][+ -- that would help!
Washington Apple PI, January 1982, p. 12, "I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH MEMORY I HAVE" by David Morganstein:
https://www.wap.org/journal/showcase/washingtonapplepijourna...