From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T20:30:03+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, 9:50 pm, Ruby Maniac <raych...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ruby is a cute language that may someday become useful

Someday when you are a more experienced programmer, you
may realize that doing bitwise operations on each byte
of a 2-megabyte file is not an appropriate task for a
"scripting language".  That calls for a lower-level language.

Ruby is excellent for processing text a word, a line, or a
paragraph at a time.  I do almost all of my programming at
home in Ruby.  It doesn't matter to me whether the program
runs in 0.05 sec. or 0.2 sec.  I can't use Ruby quite as much
as I would like at work, since I have to control the mainframe
terminal emulator with a dialect of Basic that's similar to FreeBasic
and QuickBasic.