From: Daniel Aquino <mr.danielaquino@...>
Date: 2007-08-23T21:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby shell?

It would be cool if we could some how write a patch that would alter
bash arrays and all that stuff to make it more rubyish...

Bash is a mess!

On 8/23/07, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2007/8/23, Simon Schuster <significants@gmail.com>:
> > what about a shell based on ruby? would such a thing be
> > useful/powerful? (aliasing Dir[/"usr/bin/*"] to ls returns an array,
> > can then specify ranges, etc) rash to
> > replace/include bash? :) I'm pretty new to both linux and ruby, but
> > why or why not?
>
> The topic comes up frequently here.  You can search the archives for
> more detail.
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml
>
> Oh, and btw, there *is* a Ruby shell: IRB. :-)
>
> Kind regards
>
> robert
>
>