From: "Hal E. Fulton" Date: 2002-09-10T09:37:47+09:00 Subject: Re: I thought this was funny... ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Fabris" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby To: "ruby-talk ML" Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:32 PM Subject: I thought this was funny... > Looking for a Canadian hosting co. that would support Ruby. > > I found one, barely. Check out the response from them... > > > We have determined there won't be any problem in installing mod_ruby and > eruby. It will take some time though (1-2 days). Please be aware that we > probably won't go ahead and install this unless you sign up, as this is a > fairly outdated language. Most programmers are now using Python as its > replacement. > > > What do you make of this??? Weird! Maybe there's some confusion with other languages named Ruby, of which I think there have been at least two. (The _Wired_ article also succumbed to this problem.) I would guess that they got the info about eruby and mod_ruby from one source, and the info about Ruby being outdated from some other one. In any case, I hope you'll correct their misperception... Hal