From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2005-08-15T03:06:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance

luke wrote on 8/14/2005 12:31 AM:
> 'tim toadie' is how the anagram

> tmtowtdi

> is pronounced. which stands for "there's more than one way to do it".

> it's like the catchy saying for perl, which allows coders to write in
> different ways. 

one of my favorite larry wall quotes (dealing with tim toadie) is
iirc,  'if it works, it's right'

> the jury's out about whether this is great or not,

if you have to write a 5 line perl program to parse a txt file, and
you've written it in less than 45 seconds, and it takes about 2
seconds to execute, as opposed to searching the documenation/internet
for the 'right way to do it' and the 5 line program takes an hour to
write...

well THIS juror says it's great :)

writing the same 5 line program in python. i had to write it  over
again a few times till it was 'written the right way' and accepted by
the entire python community as the right way...but i digress :)

i find ruby almost as flexible as perl is, with the added features of
the oo not feeling tacked on. some of my code isn't as concise as it
could be, but i figure i'll learn that as i  write more ruby. for now
i just like getting my code up and running in a reasonable amount of
time...

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