From: Andrew Thompson <vagabond@...>
Date: 2006-06-11T10:49:31+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.

I took a stab at such a think a while back, the plan was to be able to 
inline shell commands in ruby so you could use ruby for the if's and 
loops but type shell commands pretty naturally. I kinda had some stuff 
working, but without a proper ruby parser in ruby it's pretty tricky...

Another idea I've been bouncing around in my skull is a 
ports/pkgsrc/portage style package manager in ruby. I kinda even specced 
out my ideas here: 
http://www.cataclysm-software.net/vag/pkgman/pkgmgr-spec2.txt (still a 
WIP). I just don't have time to actually do any implementation though :(

BTW - sorry for posting from ruby forum, too lazy to resubscribe to the 
ML...

Andrew

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