From: "John W. Long" <ng@...>
Date: 2003-11-08T11:30:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Power of Interpreted Languages

Wow. Can we download it somewhere?
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John Long
www.wiseheartdesign.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Thomas" <dave@pragprog.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Power of Interpreted Languages


> 
> On Nov 7, 2003, at 13:31, Thomas Adam wrote:
> >> We all know that scripting is great for good many tasks, but could
> >> scripting make for a good word processor, for instance? How about a
> >> Desktop Enviornment or Window Manager?
> >
> > No -- too slow.
> >
> 
> Andy and I've written an X-11 window manager, mostly in Ruby...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Dave
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