From: Luciano Ramalho Date: 2007-03-21T21:17:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby-HL7 0.1.23 On 3/20/07, Jonas Pfenniger wrote: > Interesting. Is perl or ruby also used inside medical equipments or is > it only used in organisational softwares ? An X-ray machine controlled by a Perl program... that's a scary thought. Cheers, Luciano PS. Of course, there is nothing in C to make it inherently "safer" for writing programs, quite the opposite.