From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-01-15T06:36:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Irb and Ruby Separation

* Nicholas Van Weerdenburg (Jan 14, 2005 22:20):
> I guess my question might be better phrased "why doesn't running the
> ruby interpreter with no input not default to interactive mode (irb)
> such as with the python interpreter".

It interprets stdin instead.  irb is a completely separate project from
bin/ruby.  It's much the same as the shell is separate from the kernel;
an idea that seems to have been foregone by the Python developers.
	nikolai

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