From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2002-02-11T09:25:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby interpreter's stability (hosting companies etc.)

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Tobias Reif wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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."
>
> AFAICS, the current stable versions of Ruby are very stable.
>
> What to reply?

Tell them you know about the BOfH excuse server...
   http://cgi.cs.wisc.edu/scripts/ballard/bofhserver.pl
where they got that one from.


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