From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T01:50:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ... old topic, new discussion

And by dominant platform, I mean there are more kids in school, and
more PC users that are using it ... ( just wanted to *try* to abate
some of the flames that are undoubtedly headed my way )

Imagine getting Activestate style active scripting for Ruby ... let
people use Ruby as their scripting language for windows, for word,
etc.

Get Ruby into .NET and let it compete with C# head-on ... 

Those kinds of things.

On 8/15/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
> So,
> 
> I've been doing quite a bit of Ruby stuff under Windows lately and I
> would really like to bring light back to a thread that happend way
> back in April of 2001...
> 
> Do we believe that there is a need for an ActiveState Ruby
> distribution.  They've done wonderful things with their support of
> Win32 programming for Perl & Python... the .net stuff, etc.
> 
> I, obviously, would love to see that same attention paid to our
> language of choice.
> 
> I see lots of notes here and there that state "File I/O is ugly, or
> things are just ugly because they tried to emulate the *nix apis for
> things that could be done much faster and cleaner with Win32 native
> apis...
> 
> Anyways, I just wanted to throw the question out, I'd really like to
> see everyone's feedback.  Windows is still the dominant platform,
> having more support in more places could provide a real kick to
> helping mass-market acceptance.
> 
> There's my $0.02 ... where's yours?
> 
> j.
> 
> --
> "So long, and thanks for all the fish"
> 
> Jeff Wood
> 
> 


-- 
"So long, and thanks for all the fish"

Jeff Wood