From: Bob Calco <rcalco@...>
Date: 2001-11-28T16:30:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26749] Re: Vote in the current poll!

# My current thinking is that a language as elegant as Ruby with the
# execution speed of C is so hard to make that there's no point in
# expending the effort.
#
# Combining languages seems like a more practical idea to me. Write your
# code in Ruby, but if you find bottlenecks in your code, write those bits
# in C.

I'd like to say for the record, after just two days of really delving into
Ruby, I'm really sold on the concept of scripting and, as you say,
optimizing in C where necessary. I don't see the benefit of "big" languages
like C++ anymore, if the idea is just to get stuff done.

Ruby's elegance is really one of the wonders of the world, to me. I can so
quickly prove concepts and get them working that I wonder what is left to do
after the concepts are proven. :)

Sincerely,

Bob Calco