From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-06-14T05:53:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems

On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Kyrre Nygard wrote:

> I'm relatively new to Ruby, but for damn sure consider it
> the most important language to the future development of operating  
> systems.
>
> Is there any material out there on this?
> Or does anybody have any thoughts or experience?
>
> I keep thinking that if all the Bash scripts in FreeBSD instead  
> were to be
> Ruby, things would take less code and perhaps even move faster.
> I'm sure there are other parts that could be replaced by Ruby as well,
> anybody know?

This won't happen in FreeBSD.  They took out perl and rewrote the  
perl-using scripts in either /bin/sh or C because it was too hard to  
keep perl up to date.

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