From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-29T13:37:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18725] Re: Ruby as opposed to Python?

Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com> writes:

> For instance I noticed an email recently where Dave Thomas said that
> Ruby wasn't preempting threads properly on Windows. That kind of bug
> would raise screams of outrage in the Python world because there is
> so much running code out there that it would break. [ruby-talk:18699]

This is one of the reasons I'm trying to get Rubicon working reliably
on the Windows builds: we need to have a consistent way to test on all
platforms, and Windows is a challenge right now (hint hint,
ActiveState :).


Dave