From: Scott Ellsworth Date: 2005-09-21T07:41:38+09:00 Subject: Re: you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C# In article , Brock Weaver wrote: > Remember when Java was the new guy in town (ca. 1995)? "It's too slow, too > unstable, too ..." etc. That is the stage Ruby is at now. > Java has turned out to be a very successful language. [...] > JVM's have come a long way in the past few years both speed wise and=20 > stability wise. Java had some tooling that Ruby could use. For example, even the earliest Java releases has a debugging interface that could tell you when GC occurred, which objects were still live, and when methods were entrered and exited. These keen profiling tools make it much easier to get a fast JVM starting from a slow one. I have heard a few people talking about memory profilers for Ruby - I really hope these tools get written early, since they are very important for getting scalable applications. Scott -- Scott Ellsworth scott@alodar.nospam.com Java and database consulting for the life sciences