From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-06-10T06:15:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems

On 6/9/06, John Gabriele <jmg3000@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Syllable (http://www.syllable.org/ -- an alternative BeOS-like OS,
> forked from Atheos) for now uses Ruby for at least a couple
> substantial tools (the "Installer" and "Builder" apps I believe), and
> probably for many more smaller system tools.

I'm planning on doing what I can to make Ruby a major scripting
language for Haiku[1], the open source recreation of BeOS. Mostly this
is just combining some of my two favorite things in the tech world:
Ruby and BeOS. If other people like it, great.

Ryan

1. http://haiku-os.org