From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2005-08-13T01:45:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Performance Hello Adrian, AH> Perl's big advantage is that it's a nice flexible language that AH> enable you to build applications quickly and reliably (despite what AH> some people say :) I think it's biggest advantage is that is is so long out there, that it just has its market share. And it won that market share via the sysadmins - for which is was always designed from the beginning. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's