From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-09-23T03:31:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Large Ruby Apps ?

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
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> line one is an error.
> line two core dumps.
> line three will hang your machine.

Humbly suggest that C is not the poster child for static type checking
:-)
iirc C is not even considered to be type safe.


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> a valid concern, but i'd urge you to write some large ruby programs before
> weighing it too heavily. i've been writing pretty much nothing but ruby for 5
> years now and have never, like never, required a debugger or spent more that
> an hour debugging my code.  i have many, many systems running 24x7 that are
> more than 5000 lines of code (that's probably around 25,000 lines of java)
> and none, like none, of them have ever crashed.

The OP was unhelpfully vague about what he considered to be large
programs but imo 25,000 lines of java equivalent doesn't seem at all
large.

The OP also mentioned "programming in the large" which perhaps implies
co-ordinating multi-person development.