On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:21:02 -0500 Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Whether you can or cannot live with certain "spawn" delays of course depends only on how frequent those spawns occur. > 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.. You can call external programs without hassle from any compiled or interpreted language I'm aware of with a single system() function call. So there's no need to contrive some artificial division between "system shell", "interpreted language" or "script". --D. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
