From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T04:33:26+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 2, comparing C, Ruby and Java

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:20:05AM +0900, William James wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >
> > Now here's where I'm going to put on my asbestos suit. I think the
> > difficulty of C development is *vastly* exaggerated by the fans of
> > "dynamic/scripting/interpreted" languages! In addition, I think the
> > difficulty of *assembler* development is vastly exaggerated
> 
> (Note that Eddie is no fan of Ruby.)
> 
> One or more of these is true:
> 
> 1. You don't program in Ruby.
> 2. You're not thinking.
> 3. You're not being honest.
> 4. You're simple-minded.
> 
> Compared to Ruby, programming in assembly language is very
> tedious, very error-prone, very time-consuming, and laden
> with a multitude of miniscule details.  To a lesser degree,
> the same is true of C.  And assembly code, of course, is not
> portable to another processor.

It might be more accurate to say that he's just reformulated the same
situation those of us who are Ruby fans have described differently --
but in doing so, he doesn't realize it's a reformulation, and thinks
he's correcting us.

foo = :ruby_fan
bar = :eddie
baz = :chad_perrin

foo.says('Ruby's easy to use.  C is harder.  Assembly is much worse.')
bar.says('Assembly's okay.  C is easy.  You just have to be careful.')
baz.says('I guess it depends on your perspective.')

The problem is:
  bar.says('You're all wusses.').also

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