From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-30T04:44:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby is faster than all Object oriented Scripting langs

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:18 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
<znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Mark Ryall wrote:

>  Those on this list who know me probably realize that "premature
>  optimisation" is a concept I find difficult to grasp. I'm very familiar
>  with the philosophies of the great gurus Dijkstra, Hoare, Milner, Knuth,
>  etc. -- I "grew up" with them, so to speak. And I don't think there's
>  *anything* in their writings that justifies inattention to performance
>  concerns at *any* stage in the software development cycle, *including*
>  selection of a programming language!

I don't know Edward or those other guys <shy smile> but I agree.
Starting out one, seemingly linear way may prevent you from -- or slow
your progress towards -- a different design paradigm that could be
vastly better.  (Note, I used "better", not "faster").  I see this a
lot on how people approach some of the Ruby Quiz questions.

Todd