From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-05-09T08:14:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance - LOW ?

In message <1178665762.150011.29830@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, Jason writes:
>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.

I just didn't find Python as appealing.  YMMV.

That said, I'm a decent C programmer, and I'd probably be able to help
people clean up C code related to Ruby.  I *can* program in C.  I even
do it sometimes!

-s