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[GreyGeek]

marc wrote:
> See above. I know I can write it for myself in any language, but I'd 
> prefer to write something that might be acceptable to the distros.
>
> For example, I could write something in Java, but that presupposes Java 
> is in the distro. Ditto, say, c# and mono. And what about ruby, or 
> jruby? That's what I'd like to ascertain.
>
>   

You can open Synaptic and click on the Sections button.  Then explore 
the three "Development" sections and the three "Interpreted Computer 
languages" sections.   Most Linux distros have the ability to allow 
almost any computer language.   If you can find the language you want to 
use in the repository just add it to your installation.  If it is 
available somewhere on the Internet as a *.deb package you can, with 
some cautions, add it too.  Just about the ONLY limitation to the 
languages available for your use on Linux is YOUR ability to add them 
and use them.  Over the last 11 years I have explored Lisp, Cobol, 
Fortran, Pascal, Forth, Ruby, Haskel, Squeek, D, Turtle, Prolog and 
many, many more ... some are better implemented than others.  The most 
popular  are C, C++, Python, Ruby and  Java.   The most popular tool 
sets are GTK++ and QT4.  Tcl is, IMO, dying out.  So are the BASIC and 
Pascal clones.
GG