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Originally Posted by methyl
What is "ruby"?
Just another programming language
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What platforms and Operating System versions are supported?
the usual, Solaris, Windows,Linux, MacOS. etc
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The syntax for "ruby" seems remarkably obscure compared with say "awk" or "perl"
that's because you don't know about it. Same concept as a person who doesn't understand Perl/awk will find them "obscure" as well.
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Originally Posted by methyl
Lately there have been a lot of one-liners posted in "ruby" on the apparent assumption that mainstream unix or Linux come with "ruby. They don't.
who says one has to solve everything using just "mainstream" tools? And how do you define mainstream? For example, nowadays, linux packages/CDs comes with Ruby. Either its selected by default or an administrator can choose to install it. Now, does the system become "mainstream" in that situation, or not?
Ruby is just a tool like any other languages out there, Perl, Python you name it.