On 16 Jun 2009, at 16:13, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >> Dave Kubasiak <davekub / hotmail.com> writes: >> >>> ...It needs to have a GUI so someone can see at a >>> glance what it's doing, and it needs to be multi-threaded. It would >>> most likely be running on Windows since that's the only GUI OS we >>> currently have running.... >>> >>> Would Ruby be appropriate for this task? > > > The threading issue is something to look into more. Ruby threading > is a > bit... odd. > > I'm also not sure how you'd create a Windows GUI in Ruby, that's worth > looking into more too. By loading GDI+ with Ruby/DL lol Otherwise there's TK which ships with Ruby. Ellie Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains http://slides.games-with-brains.net ---- raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason