From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T04:45:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Now: would you like to debate whether a Rails programmer can produce at
> five times the rate of a .NET programmer, given equivalent tools and
> processes? Or would you like to join me in efforts and advocacy to speed
> Ruby up, which seems to me a more productive use of time?

No, I want to provide Joel a Cluebat, with glowing letters on it spelling: 
"Premature Optimization is the root of all evil".

In a web app, the bottleneck is the database, so - guess what?! - it's 
written in C. Anything else is just tuning.

I will trade CPU cycles for programmer cycles any day.

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  Phlip
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