From: "DEBAUN, STEVE [Seminis/2400]" <steve.debaun@...>
Date: 2006-06-10T06:20:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems

In an inspired moment the other night, I thought it would be soooo cooool to
have a command shell with ruby syntax.  The I started getting even crazier,
and thought, what about a ruby interpreter as an o/s kernel...

It may have only sounded cool because I was drunk, though.

sd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Leavengood [mailto:leavengood@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 2:15 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> 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