From: Bryan Zarnett <bryan_zarnett@...>
Date: 2001-05-03T10:28:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14565] Re: Ruby as a Mac OS/X scripting language

I was looking at OS/X yesterday and although the sales
guys where terrible (when the found out I was not
going to spend 6k on the G4 laptop they ignored me) I
did have the pleasure to try OS/X -- more
specifically, the console.

Tk/Tcl is already ported so is Perl. The OS/X shell
comes with the cc compiler and all the base libs for
compiling Ruby, so on that front it should be pretty
easy. Apache and all the other stuff is there, so in
essence it should be a straight BSD compile of Ruby.

I'm currently looking at OS/X and the new iBook as a
possible laptop semi-Unix type of box.

So, the executive summary -- I think the port should
be fairly easy and should work well over all. In
principle, adding additional Mac-based items should be
fairly simple as the API is a bit better written than
what I saw in MacOS 8.

Bryan "I really like the new iBook" Zarnett

P.S. If they want to send an iBook and OS/X to my
house I will be more than willing to do a port :-)

--- Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
> 
> Andy and I got an interesting couple of e-mails
> saying that Apple
> needs a scripting language for OS/X, and that Ruby
> might fit the bill
> nicely.
> 
> Given that I don't have a MacI'm really in no
> position to say, but
> this seems interesting.
> 
> Does anyone with some OS/X background have any
> insights here?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave
> 
> Footnotes: 
>   but I do have a dark brown overcoat
> 
> 


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