From: Ashley Moran <work@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T18:18:14+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 23:13, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I recently rewrote an 830 line Java/
> > Hibernate web service client as 67 lines of Ruby, in about an hour. �
> > With that kind of productivity, performance can go to hell!
>
> With a 92% cut in code weight, I can certainly sympathize with that
> sentiment. �Wow.

Even the last remaining member of the Anti-Ruby Defence League in my office 
admitted (reluctantly) that it was impressive!

Ashley

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