Well all programming languages are a DSL for getting things done on the CPU... Ruby would also be useful for systems programming. A GUI (be it web ui, system gui fx, or text file, or... etc) comes in all flavors.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Paul McCallick <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's another question: What's going on with IronRuby? The marriage of > .net and Ruby seemed really promising, but I hear MS abandoned it. JRuby > and Groovy need a competitor. > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ian Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have seen more an more .NET developers moving to Ruby over the last >> couple years. I have picked up a couple of Ruby books and I like the >> language. Many times I am coding in C# and thinking that it would be a lot >> easier in Ruby to do XYZ for some small piece. However, I have not seen >> where I could actually leverage Ruby as a primary language. Is >> Ruby relegated to web sites, DSLs, and scripts? With C#, I can write >> applications, services, web services, graphical simulators, games, and more. >> >> What is out there that can be done in Ruby? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ian Davis >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > --Paul > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
