From: Tim Hammerquist <penryu@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T07:50:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> The one thing that sticks in my craw about Ruby is that
> File::Separator is a forward-slash ('/') on Windows.  This is just
> wrong, and it means I have to replace the slashes with back-slashes
> manually before passing file paths to command-line programs.  If you
> pass a Windows program a path like /some/path, the program will try
> to interpret path elements as switches.  It's almost the equivalent
> of having File::Separator be a hyphen ('-') on Unix.

Aside from the obvious argument that making filesep '\' in DOS was the
first mistake, I'm curious what command-line programs are useful
enough that you shell out from the language you're writing in?

Tim Hammerquist