From: Shai Rosenfeld <shaiguitar@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T21:47:34+09:00
Subject: Re: This is why Ruby 1.8.6 can never be made to run anywhere

Ron Fox wrote:
> There are cases where speed is almost completely irrelevant.
> What is important is completion of a functioning application that
> satisfies the customer (internal or external).  For many many
> applications this can be done, on modern computers without any
> attention to the speed of the application.  If my program takes
> 100ms to execute and yours takes 1usec, I contend that most users
> will not notice, or care about the difference.
>
> I _am_ programming language agnostic.  As such I write and have written
> in Assembler, Forth, Fortran, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Ruby, Perl, Python,
> Pascal.. I've even developed application specific languages and then
> used them.  None of these languages is a silver bullet.  Each has
> advantages and disadvantages, and the wise programmer will weigh them
> carefully when selecting which ones to use to solve any given problem.
> 
> Ron Fox
> National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824-1321

there we go.
:)
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