From: Iwan van der Kleyn <none@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T04:49:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Poor efficency of Ruby...

> Comparing apples to oranges.
> 
> PHP is lightning fast to parse: It's parser-friendly first, and
> human-friendly second. Python the same. 

Mmh, I think you have got you fruit mixed up in the wrong bowl :-)

Its rather silly to state that Python is "parser-friendly first, and 
human-friendly second". Python's principal characteristic. its use of 
white-space to delimit program blocks, is primarily intended to make the 
language more us "human-friendly". Thatś why Python is often called 
"executable pseudo-code".

Regrds,

Iwan