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> Windows > Sorry :-( And that's what happens when your programming language does not have a decent deployment ecosystem.
by Mithaldu 15y ago
> Windows
> Sorry :-(
And that's what happens when your programming language does not have a decent deployment ecosystem.
- dylangs1030 15y agoThat's not a Ruby issue, it's a cowsay issue. Unix base supports it, Windows doesn't. Ruby actually has a great deployment system. And the author's general point, despite him being an obvious Ruby programmer, is that efficiency and confidence are more important than scrambling to cover your bases, and what the latter means in coding behavior. The examples would differ, but his point is universal.
- Mithaldu 15y agoMea culpa. I did not realize that it was an interface to cowsay, instead of an implementation of it. There is something to say to say about using a platform-dependent utility for a talk of an eminently portable language, but i do not think that is necessary here.
- bphogan 15y agoThis particular example has little to do with Ruby and everything to do with the example chosen by the presenter.
- tikhonj 15y agoActually, that's what happens when your platform doesn't support such fundamental utilities as cowsay. I can't imagine how you get anything done... (On a loosely related note, I actually had a somewhat reasonable use case for cowsay at a hackathon recently, so it isn't completely useless.)
- tjogin 15y agoNo, it's what happens when the ecosystem doesn't give a shit about Windows.