From: _z <ranx2@...>
Date: 2001-01-16T15:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9364] Re: Ruby as an extension language for ksh93

There a a bunch of perl based shells which once appeared in an issue of TPJ
(The Perl Journal) - Issue #18 Vol 5 No 2.
Also check out http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/
for ideas.

Ranga

Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@jump.net> wrote in message
news:93p613$gmc$1@news.jump.net...
> ksh93 has an interesting feature that allows you to add commands to it by
> writing C extensions, thus (I think) opening the door to using Ruby (and
RAA
> modules) for writing ksh extensions.
>
> I was thinking this might be an interesting way to incrementally replace
> large collections of ksh code with Ruby behind the scenes, while still
> retaining a familiar ksh interface for groups of people who are never
likely
> to learn Ruby to use.
>
> Any thoughts on this half-baked idea? (Has anyone tried doing this with
> Perl? I didn't see anything that looked relevant in the first couple of
> pages of results when I tried some simple-minded searches at Google and
> CPAN.)
>
> Conrad
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