From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T12:25:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Can ruby replace c?

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 21:14, Robby Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:11 +0900, cmk128@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Hi
> >   Can ruby replace c ? Or no, because ruby is a high level language !!

Ruby is an interpreted high level language.  You can do a lot of C-like things 
in Ruby, but due to performance reasons, Ruby won't replace C, at least until 
we have an extremely efficient compiler.  It is a perfect language for many 
things however.