From: Vincent Manis <vmanis@...>
Date: 2011-04-13T23:48:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for beginners (was: Re: Hello)

On 2011-04-13, at 05:59, Josh Cheek wrote:
> Are you thinking of building your own editor? Surely this work has already
> been done.
Just to make it clear, I am *ABSOLUTELY NOT* thinking of building another editor. My operative philosophy comes from Tom Lehrer's song, `Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky', on how to succeed as a mathematician: "Plagiarize,/Let no one else's work evade your eyes,/Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,/So don't shade your eyes,/But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -/Only be sure always to call it please 'research'." (To which I would add `with attribution'.) 

As for Tk not appearing with current Ruby installers, oops on my part. 

So. How do we get an IDLE-like editor that will work at least on Windows and Mac that is plausible to ship as part of the installers? 

-- v