From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2000-02-25T16:31:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01574] Re: [ruby] Re: Ruby UNIX centric?

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.misc as well.


Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:

|I also think so! We could bundle all OS dependend things into a
|special module. I like the way Python has solved it. There is a module 
|'os' that used to be imported. Then this module itself imports the
|corresponding 'os_unix.py' or another one!

No, I don't think so.  

UNIX rules. We have to teach about better world to guys living on
other platforms.  :-)

Putting a joke aside, I think we can have POSIX features builtin to
Ruby at least.  `import sys', etc. annoy me very much. they are among
the things I don't like in Python.

							matz.