From: Philipp Meier <meier@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T03:00:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRubyScript and RubyAEOSA


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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:46:33AM +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:

> 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.

Hmmm, as mentiod before on this list, vim is scriptable, exim is
scriptable, emacs is scriptable by definition :-), postgresql supports
different scripting languages, mozilla is scriptable, openoffice is
scriptable. *yawn*

-billy.

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