Re: App blueprint, advice please!

[Dan H <dunno stoptrick com>]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:21:02 -0500
Patrick <optomatic rogers com> 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.