comp.lang.ruby

Christian Neukirchen

10/20/2006 8:43:00 PM

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov writes:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
>
>> On 10/18/06, John Baylor <john.baylor@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I know a lot of people are using ruby on rails for web apps,
>>> usually with
>>> Apache as the underlying app, but I don't know of anyone using ruby itself
>>> for a 24/7 application. Yes, some people are using webrick as their web
>>> server but they don't necessarily lose $$$ if their personal web site goes
>>> down.
>>
>> The first Ruby program I ever wrote was a pure-Ruby RADIUS authentication
>> server. I wrote it the same day I learned Ruby.This was over three years
>> ago. It's still in production now, on multiple sites. It's been rock-solid
>> and stable from Day 1. The code has not changed in all that time except to
>> add new features.
>
> 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.

And the old code looks so dangerous you don't dare to touch it,
because it *will* bite you... ;-)

> -a
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