From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-10-20T00:18:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Is anyone using Ruby for 24/7 financial applications?

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On 10/19/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
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> here you confirm something i've long asserted, but few people seem to
> beleive:
> 'old' peices of code still sitting at version 0.0.0 are likely to be quite
> stable.  they are like sharks: evolution got it right the first time.



The stream runs clearest near the source (if you'll pardon the pun). I
believe that the vast majority of errors in well-designed and well-written
programs are regressions.

Going back to the OP: the only downtime-causing Ruby error I ever saw in a
critical production system was caused by a memory-eating bug in REXML that
got fixed somewhere in the neighborhood of version 1.8.4.

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