From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-02-11T00:55:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby interpreter's stability (hosting companies etc.)

* Tobias Reif (tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com) wrote:

> I nicely asked my main hosting company to install Ruby.  They feature
> PHP, Perl, and Python.

> Now, months later, I asked again, ~"latest OO lang from Japan", and
> they said:  "Unfortunately, the current versions of Ruby aren't yet
> stable enough for our servers."

Perhaps they'd like to see some of my nice httpd-error logs full of PHP
internal errors? :)

> AFAICS, the current stable versions of Ruby are very stable.

It's probably marginally easier to segfault Ruby than Python/PHP/Perl,
simply because the others are more mature.  Unless they're looking at
mod_ruby, though, I don't see why it should be a problem.

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