From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T00:00:15+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby shell?

Daniel Aquino wrote:
> There is ruby based shells... Look them up and think about it some more...
> 
> You'd have to write a new shell with a ruby like syntax in all reality...
> 
> What about environment variables ?
> 
> You can't just start typing executable names that are in your path
> you'd have to use back ticks or something for every single command you
> want to run that isn't part of ruby...

That was something that really irritated me when I migrated from "ksh"
to "ksh + (n)awk" and then to Perl. I just found actual *programming* in
"ksh" to be totally non-intuitive, and the pattern/action style of
"nawk" programming made more sense for what I was doing. Perl at least
was a real programming language. And of course Ruby is a lot more readable.