On 13/06/06, Son SonOfLilit <sonoflilit / gmail.com> wrote: > Development time of apps for an OS who's native API is ruby dinamic objects > would go drastically down. Why? > Such an OS would be naturally reflective, a feature that would make the > world (and especially the business world) a far better and more productive > place. I can't think of anything useful that would give you. Can you? Ruby is *interpreted*. A lot of it's beauty is a wrapper around system calls. I can't begin to think what benefits a high-level dynamic language gives you in kernel space (where things like memory allocation can't be taken for granted). -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/