From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T13:15:03+09:00
Subject: Re: This is why Ruby 1.8.6 can never be made to run anywhere near as fast as Python 2.5.1

On Sep 23, 8:50 pm, Ruby Maniac <raych...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ruby is a cute language that may someday become useful but this won't
> happen unless the Ruby community becomes interested in making Ruby
> perform better at runtime.

To be clear, it may someday become useful *to you*; it's already
useful to me.

> In the meantime, I will use Ruby only when
> I must as for the rest I will most-likely use Python unless the
> problem suggests another language may be more useful.

I'd be interested to know under what circumstance(s) you expect to be,
or already are, forced to use Ruby. (Developing RoR sites in a team
environment?)