From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T07:52:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

On Sunday 08 January 2006 05:42 pm, Gregory Brown wrote:
> On 1/8/06, Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Compare them to C :-). Or Perl.
>
> I'm really not sure at all on this but could well written C or Perl be
> safer than Ruby?
> I'm thinking the answer to that is 'yes', but I'm not sure at all why
> (and what expense it would come at )

C is like using a punch press without safety interfaces. A very careful person 
could use it safely, but an inattentive person would lose his thumb.

Ruby is like a punch press with a safety interface. You'd need to try very 
hard to lose your thumb.

Now it just might be that a very careful and attentive C punch press operator 
could operate more safely than a drunk and depressed Ruby punch press 
operator, but that's not a fair comparison IMHO.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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