From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2007-08-29T07:33:47+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby shell?

  "Now why would a Ruby shell be wonderful? "

Aside and above all the niceties of Ruby, its really
about objects and messages - in a shell. A shell on top
of an operating system... or at least its first
citizen. :-)

Where you can think of your whole operating system as
interacting objects doing nice little stuff (without
being restricted to the old unix philosophy of using
tiny non-GUI thingies with odd names to achieve certain
tasks...)




  "Imagine a new distro or two of linux: Rinux!!"


I think ultimately, a distro is nothing without
people backing it up. I think this is a little too ambitious,
as far as I know the only really ambitious project
on that (RubyX, later renamed to Heretix) disbanded because
the two main devs no longer had the time (and I also
suspect a little bit, they felt slightly burnt out. But
that is my opinion.)

A shell would be much more of a mundane task ;-)



  "I tend to look at things very pragmatically - if you want to write
  something that will run _anywhere_, write a sh script."

I think being pragmatic is very good. Personally though,
I feel sh style is not only old and ugly - it is a lot
more limited than ruby. I havent seen DSLs usage or GUI
handling in shell scripts, new ideas seem to neither spread
into shell and its "legacy" so to me its a pretty dead
concept - I always have ruby ready, and even if i carry
it around on an USB stick ... :-)

But sure, shell scripts may have several use cases, even
perl hasn't killed off shell scripts! (But then again
Perl also has no maintained perl shell afaik) ;-)
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