From: Allan Odgaard <x0uhk6q02@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T17:05:12+09:00
Subject: Re: When clever is stupid

On 2/9/2006, at 3:07, Chad Perrin wrote:

> I think that's one of the reasons that long-time C, Java, and Fortran
> programmers (among others) tend to view languages like Perl and  
> Ruby as
> "only a scripting language": the code doesn't look complex enough  
> [...]

While it may have something to do with it, it is, compared to C,  
�only a scripting language� because you can only use it for a subset  
of programming problems.

For example you wouldn�t write a parser, compiler, 3D engine,  
something like zlib, openssl, or similar in Ruby (because of  
performance), you can�t write device drivers, you can�t interface to  
a lot of things (w/o writing bindings in, you guessed it, C) etc.