From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T01:07:00+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: Ruby Performance

On 12/08/05, Adrian Howard <adrianh@quietstars.com> wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2005, at 16:39, Bradley Kite wrote:
> 
> > Compared with - say - slashdot?
> [snip]
> 
> I'm sure with sufficient effort somebody could run Amazon with a
> large parallel group of highly trained stoats. Who cares :-)

That reminds me of the pc technologie:

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

regards,

Brian

> 
> There are large web sites built with Java, Perl, Ruby, C++, Lisp, C#,
> PHP and god knows how many other languages. PHP and Perl didn't build
> their market share because they were /faster/ - they built it because
> they were /better/ (for certain definitions of "better").
> 
> Perl's big advantage is that it's a nice flexible language that
> enable you to build applications quickly and reliably (despite what
> some people say :)
> 
> Ruby's advantage over Perl 5 is that it does some stuff that Perl 5
> can't do, and makes much of the stuff it can do easier (in certain
> areas anyway).
> 
> Compare the simplicity of overriding some_method= with messing with
> lvalue subs and tied variables to get the same affect in Perl 5. Some
> things are simpler and, when it comes to writing and maintaining
> code, simpler is better.
> 
> Adrian
> 
> 


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