From: mark sparshatt <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2005-04-23T04:31:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] the Ruby Programming Shop

Dr Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> On 04/22/2005 08:16 PM, pat eyler wrote:
> 
>> Announcing the Ruby Programming Shop (RPS)
>>
>> Please join us at our wiki:
>>    http://therps.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
> 
> 
> Huh? On a rubyforge site what wiki.pl (perl) is for?
> 
>> and on our mailing list:
>>      http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/therps-discuss/
> 
> 
> Both the mailing-list archiver 'pipermail' and mailing-list manager 
> 'mailman' are python powered here too; but why?
> 

I don't mean to alarm you but Rubyforge uses the Gforge system which is 
written in PHP ;-)


If I was to hazard a guess as to why I'd say becuase reusing a system 
written in PHP, perl or python rather than rewriting them in ruby meant 
there was more time available for administering the site.

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Mark Sparshatt