From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-08-18T00:36:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance


Bradley Kite wrote:
> [in reply to no single post in particular]
>
> Well I really had no idea of how much emotional ettatchment people had
> to their languages of choice.
>
> When I posted my original question, I had no idea that the later
> conversation would
> contain such passion, humor, sarcasim and personal insult.
>
> Any way, my orginal post stemmed from my curiosity with regards
> to what Ruby was trying to achieve:
>
> >> I'm a relatively new Ruby programmer, I am curious as to what Ruby is
> >> trying to achieve that other scripting languages do not already offer (Apart
> >> from the syntactic differences of yet another scripting language, that is).
>
> The highly non-real-world and simplistic benchmarks were not meant to
> provoke the zeolots, but rather well displayed my lack of understanding
> for what Ruby was trying to achieve. Of which I still dont quite understand

"a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language"
http://www.rubygarden.org/faq/entry/show/5