[ruby-talk:10648] Re: Larry Wall INterview

> # I'm also a big KSH person, I'm actually hoping for an OO rewrite and 
> loadable
> # modules.  That would help in my industry greatly.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here. Presumably you already know about ksh93
> and about (http://www.kornshell.com/) and (I think it might have been)
> DGK's claim (to the effect) that ksh93i has enough of Perl's string
> and OO features that they now mostly use ksh instead of Perl?

Ok, an example:

I have been painfully trying to create the folling wrapper:

ksh -> expect -> ssh -> remote machines,


Code would look like this:

if remote mach1 . .profile 
then
remote mach1 env | grep SOMETHING
else
remote mach1 cp /usr/local/.profile ~
fi

Basically the remote state would be saved because it is having a two way
conversation.

IMHO, the pty functionality should be in a machine-code-library because it is a
little exotic. 

As far as OO is concerned, 

in perl:

$ftp -> put ( $data_object ) ;

in my imginary OOKSH:

$data -> ftp ( $mach:/dir0/dir1/file ), isnt Ruby a little like this ??


David has promised to create pty functionality so I can do this w/ a ksh
wrapper over ssh




> 
> Conrad Schneiker
> (This note is unofficial and subject to improvement without notice.)


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