From: bonefry <bellarchitects@...>
Date: 2005-10-05T06:41:47+09:00
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Microsoft vs. ... Ruby?

> Yeah Ruby can certainly be slow in some cases, we all admit that.
> Thank goodness we have YARV in the works...that should reduce the
> "excuses" for not using Ruby by about 90% when it is released. I think
> a lot of people blame Ruby's slowness when they decide to not use it,
> when in reality they are just scared of something new.
>
> Ryan

It will sure reduce many excuses for not using Ruby, that's for sure
:-)
Good point

Many are afraid of new things, yes, but it's only natural.

In `96 Java was also liked for it's productivity and hated for it's
poor performance.

LISP and Smaltalk failed because of poor performance and being
revolutionary. But I think it was poor performance most of all.
Nowadays LISP is as fast as C++, but who cares ? It wasn't fast enough
when it was needed and now people consider it weird and ... slow.

Anyway, I was trying to say that I really hope Yarv delivers.