From: Peter Carlsson <peter.carlsson.konsult@...>
Date: 2005-11-03T16:14:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Ruby vs REBOL

Kim Kubik wrote: 

>"Peter Carlsson" wrote
>> I apologize if this is a little bit off topic.
>>
>> As part of my master thesis I am about to develop some
>> scripts using Ruby. As I have never used it before and
>> using REBOL for six years I would like to ask if anyone
>> could give a brief summary of what's the difference
>> between Ruby and REBOL.
>
>could be very attractive for some users.  E.g., at the REBOL 
>prompt I typed:
>
>>> send t...@email.msn.com "Did this work?"
>
>and in response it dialed my modem, connected to my ISP, and then REBOL
>crashed after provoking an invalid page fault in kernel32.dll.  Then my
>connection broke, and the modem dialed and connected again.  
>Then it just sat there until it timed out.

I never had any problems like that. REBOL has always felt
very robust and the latest versions has been improved in
functionality alot. Maybe if it's reproducible you should
send them a bug report?

Best regards,
Peter Carlsson