From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2006-06-11T10:19:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems DEBAUN, STEVE [Seminis/2400] wrote: > 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 > How is a command shell with Ruby syntax different from "irb"? > >> -----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 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 >> > > > -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://linuxcapacityplanning.com