From: Jason <rsfree3@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T08:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance - LOW ?

On May 7, 2:55 pm, conker <hkc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's sad to see ruby at the bottom of this list:
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>

Good question. This will bug the heck out of the Rubyists... But...

While Ruby looks like it is superior, sorry, IS superior to all
languages, it doesn't have the support of any major business or
scientific community that would fund and help create a complete
programming language solution that "just works" out of the box.

Ruby is fun to play with, but too many times Ruby packages are not
updated, or only get partially implimented or the implimentator gets
bored and abandons the entire code mess er. project when he finally
get's a girl friend.

When I need demonstrated faster processing speed, a clean syntax with
OOP features without resorting to obtuse "Perl-isms", usable and
CURRENT documentation,  and a community of programmers that know how
to program in C/C++ so they CAN help to IMPROVE the language instead
of mindlessly beating on newbies to just STFU and live with it until
Matz gets around in one of his pending future lives to fix Ruby,  I
use Python.

http://www.python.org/

-- Jason.