From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T02:46:33+09:00
Subject: ActiveRubyScript and RubyAEOSA

I just discovered ActiveRubyScript (sometimes written as two words) by
following up on a  reference here. I haven't had a chance to play with it
yet but I'm installing a Windows emulator in the background so I can play
with it.

How important is it? How much is it like Ruby.

It doesn't appear to be much like RubyAEOSA. Is this important?

I'm sort of a *nix newbie but thumbing through "Unix in a Nutshell" there
don't appear to be *any* 'scripting languages' in the Visual
Basic/JavaScript/AppleScript sense or for that matter any scriptable
applications.[1] I don't doubt that this is related to the linear nature of
many Unix apps that has been mentioned here before. But that raises the
question of will there ever be scriptable Unix apps, and if the answer is
yes, shouldn't there be a single Ruby syntax for addressing them.

[1] Leaving MOSX out of UNIX for the sake of discussion.
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