From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-01-24T04:15:48+09:00
Subject: Re: looking at ruby...

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On 22 Jan 2005, at 23:57, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello Eric,
>
> EH> Ruby is fast enough
> EH> for everybody here, and its fast enough for basecamphq.com and
> EH> 43things.com.
>
> But since the ruby community is still very very small this is maybe
> not a very clever answer.

Commonly, it is the truth.  By omitting my full response though, you 
misrepresent my statement.

Writing C extensions in Ruby is hardly more difficult than writing 
plain Ruby code, and with a tool like RubyInline, it only gets easier.  
Beacuse of this, many people find no problem using Ruby despite it 
being slower than other languages.

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