From: Vinh Chuc Date: 2007-04-05T04:50:25+09:00 Subject: Some General Questions about Ruby Hi ! I think i'll soon begin to learn programming in ruby, as so many people find it ( and its buddy RoR ) awesome. I'm a beginner programmer ( Basic, PHP, Caml, and i'm currently reading some C/C++ tutorials ) Ruby is an interpreted language, if i'm not wrong, interpreted languages are slightly slower than compiled ones, so far i mainly coded web apps, but i may one day do some Desktop apps programming, and so : are Ruby programs much slower/nearly as fast/ ... as a for example a C-compiled program ( i guess it depends a lot on the kind of software ) ?? About the possibilities of Ruby, i know Ruby is a generic language, and that we can program almost every software in Ruby, but *almost* every for example, is it possible to develop a peripheral driver in Ruby ?? more generally to access the hardware ? to write a linux kernel module ?? ( i guess it is not possible to write a ruby OS kernel ) thank you ( i'm not a native english speaker, sorry if any mistakes ) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.