From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T23:18:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on oreilly.net on how to build Unix tools with Ruby

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 02:23, David Garamond wrote:
> Speaking of Unix tools, do any of the Perlians in this list remember Tom 
> Christiansen's pet project Perl Power Tools?
> 
>   http://www.perl.com/language/ppt/
> 
> The project aims to rewrite many Unix commands in Perl, from simple 
> commands like 'echo', 'clear', and 'cat' to moderately complex ones like 
> 'cp', 'find', and 'ls' to complex ones like 'awk', 'make', and 'm4'. 
> Take a look at the URL above, they seem to have implemented a good chunk 
> of them.
> 
> Perhaps someone with extra free time on his hands would like to take a 
> stab on a Ruby Power Tools project? ;-)

rpt.rubyforge.org is still available...

Yours,

Tom
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