David Christensen wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >But Ruby suffers from being popular on platforms that lack a good > >package manager. That hurts it terribly on Debian because so many > >Ruby authors have written so much packaging code making it difficult > >or perhaps impossible to create a well behaved system package of it. > >It is difficult to use Ruby without a network connection in order to > >be able to download scripts on the fly from the network and run them > >on the fly as part of an installation. > > Thanks for the warning.
And yet even given the problems I still find myself choosing to program in Ruby because I like it better than other options available to me. It is such a nice language in so many ways. Bob
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