From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-06-10T00:21:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems

On Jun 9, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Kyrre Nygard wrote:

> I keep thinking that if all the Bash scripts in FreeBSD instead  
> were to be
> Ruby, things would take less code and perhaps even move faster.

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the value of shell scripting  
languages.  They target a different problem space:  gluing programs  
together.  It's easy to write shell scripts using redirection and  
pipes that would be significantly bigger when translated to Ruby.

James Edward Gray II