Thanks! Sorry for being so dense but just to double check, do you spawn C and Python programs form the main App written in Ruby?
I have wanted to learn Ruby for a while now, I could definitely do that. Nicola was saying that my Bash idea might be a problem because of the spawn time involved with bash. Is Ruby pretty fast spawning these secondary programs? Is the Ruby shell a true system shell? I am just wondering if I could still access ftp, netcat, ssh ect.. Thanks for your time. And thank you Dan and Nicola too. I don't need much convincing that the whole Bash as a nervous system + (Python/C/Ruby etc) as the muscle is a dumb idea!-Patrick G Hasse wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 08:57:01PM +0100, Dan H wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:47:44 -0500 >> Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> With so many aspects to this does anyone think that using Bash >>> would be useful? For example if we designed all the smaller >>> programs to read and write from/to standard input and output, they >>> could be interlinked with other Bash commands such as ftp, netcat, >>> ssh, mailx and so on.. >>> >>> Lets say a customer had a detector and a pump to pump a sample >>> through it. We could write a Bash script that works something like >>> this: >>> >>> -icon launches Bash script >>> -sends variable " 2" to pump command to pump 2 ml per minute >>> -pump command sends signal to serial port or GPIB bus, etc >>> -bash sends variable "230" to set the detector to wavelength 230 nm >>> -bash autozeros detector >>> -launches plot command >>> -after that launches data process command >>> -then launches database storage command >>> - emails whoever, turns your coffee maker on or whatever....etc..etc >>> >>> It's a terrible over simplification but hopefully illustrates the >>> idea. >>> >> I got the idea but I don't think the Bourne shell (bash) would be a >> particular wise choice to implement it, owing to weird programming >> paradigms and an almost complete absence of arithmetics. I'm a big fan >> of C (and shell scripting as well), but it seems that Python has been >> gaining lots of popularity in the past years. >> > > Hello! > > Or you could do as us and implement control in Ruby. Ruby of Python > is quite as good. Then you have a modern scripting language to do > control with. > > And now for wom Gtk promotion. We have been developing a SCADA > system in Gtk, C and Ruby with a SQL database as central storage. > > http://www.freescada.com > > A tip for you is to "be in the buissines of selling source code". > We have had quite a success with this. Most of our competitors have > closed code and the customers are locked in. Since we provide our > customers with souce code they can expand the application and > for them selves check the quality. > > In this way we have developed an application for the swedish > defence. > > http://www.raditex.se/~gh/bilder/RadarBildPulser.png > > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
