From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10711112128g3da54d0au6bff4ddcfa76234b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:28:49 -0800 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Ruby port In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: f3bc6514-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 11/11/07, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > Anyone porting ruby? Would anyone besides me use it? > depends on how far you want to dig. I think Ruby might be neat, but if there is any one thing that a number of us think is desperately needed, it is a blessed gcc port for plan 9 -- a gcc port that is integrated back into the gcc tree. Or, same thing for python. Or, sure, ruby. But what's most needed is the port, plus, integration back into mainline. At least I think so. ron