From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-03-29T14:01:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Is ruby is faster than all Object oriented Scripting langs On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:05 PM, bramu.ss@gmail.com wrote: > I am looking at the couple of scripting languages I found the best > two one is Ruby and other is Python. I want to learn one of these > languages but I dont know the prons and crons of these 2 languages. > But as the 1st look I want to know which one of these languages will > be fast when we are running the application.. learn them both. the speed will depend entirely on the application - for instance there are c-bindings for many libraries in both python and ruby. if the binding exists for one but not the other your application will be faster in that one. frankly, if you are learning either one for 'speed' you've got real troubles - both are 100/10000 time slower than pure c for cpu intensive tasks. we write ruby because it makes our minds stop hurting and because it let's solve problems that we would not be able to comprehend in other languages, and therefore which would remain unsolved. python is quite good with regard to this too. technically speaking you don't really learn a 'language' - you learn an implementation of a turning machine and use it to solve problems. the choice if implementation should be determined by a) what you like. b) what you require. i order them that way because very little code gets written when you hate what you are doing. kind regards. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama