From: Dolazy <francis.rammeloo@...>
Date: 2007-01-07T10:18:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Scriptable text editor with Ruby?

I still think an application written entirely in ruby would be slow.
Eclipse is slower than Visual Studio, Azureus is slower than
�Torrent.. Higher level languages are slower, even if they use optimal
data structures. I know that this doesn't have to be this way
theoretically, and that higher-level languages allow more compiler
optimization and all. But still you see that programs written in C/C++
are almost always faster than those written in Java, or other
high-level languages (esp ruby!).

I'm in favor of higher level languages, but wanting to make my
application customizable using external scripts does not mean my
language is too low-level. It just means that I want to make my program
programmable.