From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2006-06-10T12:46:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> 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.

I worked with QNX a number of years ago.  Amazing system, the kernel was 
13K.  Everything else ran externally and communicated via a very simple 
message protocol.  It really rocked!  Ruby would plug into something like 
that extremely well.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts. 
It's what I can remember in time to use.