From: Simen Edvardsen Date: 2006-06-12T05:06:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems It's not, unless I've misunderstood something. In fact, you'd only need a ~/.irbrc with some shortcuts for commonly used shell stuff, and bam! - a Ruby shell. On 6/11/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- - Simen