From: Guido Sohne <guido@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T16:13:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Handhelds (was: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005?)

On 7/22/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:32 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >
> > There's a *reason* people use SDKs to program small devices. I
> > don't see the point of a Ruby interpreter in anything without a
> > real keyboard.
> >
>
> Geek factor

Fine. Then use something like Lua instead. Am doing that exactly now.
Using lua as the client to talk to a ruby on rails server, with json
as the intermediate object format. Ruby isn't doable on this machine.

Use the right tool for the job. In this case, it's not Ruby.

-- G.