From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-08-03T08:15:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

On Jul 20, 2005, at 13:50, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>   develop fast, maintain fast, runs      : ruby
>   develop fast, maintain fast, runs med  : ruby + c ext
>   develop med, maintain med, runs fast   : ocaml
>   develop slow, maintain slow, runs fast : c

A good summary, only I think C is also the one you kinda have to use  
if you're:

* Dealing with hardware directly (i.e. twiddling bits in registers)
* Running on an embedded system with limited storage space
* Interfacing with system libraries in any significant way

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe OCaml can do all that.  If it could, that  
would be great, but so far that's the reason I've been stuck using  
C.  C really isn't so bad until you have to deal with strings.  When  
you have to deal with strings... *sigh*

Ben