From: jennyw <jennyw@...>
Date: 2001-05-03T10:49:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14568] Re: Ruby as a Mac OS/X scripting language

I'm confused by people saying that there is no scripting language for Mac OS
X ... AppleScript should be included:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/

Jen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Zarnett" <bryan_zarnett@yahoo.ca>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:28 PM
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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