From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-06-10T06:50:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems

On 6/9/06, DEBAUN, STEVE [Seminis/2400] <steve.debaun@seminis.com> wrote:
> In an inspired moment the other night, I thought it would be soooo cooool to
> have a command shell with ruby syntax.

FYI: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rush/

> The I started getting even crazier,
> and thought, what about a ruby interpreter as an o/s kernel...

That might be taking things too far, but I could certainly imagine
kernel extensions or system services written in Ruby, but it might
need to be some type of limited interpreter or kept in a sandbox, just
in case.

Ryan