From: Bira <u.alberton@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T20:51:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programmingr

On 9/13/06, Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bringing the debate back on topic,
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/12.html
>
> Joel revisits his claims in his original article, particularly
> the Ruby-is-slow claim.

I've read that - aren't his arguments a bit out-of-date, in the sense
that they've been answered on this list several times? More
specifically, I'm thinking of that huge "For Performance, Write it in
C" thread, in which the conclusion seemed to be that the choice of
algorithm had a much greater impact than the choice of language.

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