From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2008-03-30T06:40:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby is faster than all Object oriented Scripting langs


On 29 Mar 2008, at 21:25, Brian Adkins wrote:
> On Mar 28, 10:01 pm, "bramu...@gmail.com" <bramu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>  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..
>
> How did you determine that "the best two" were Ruby and Python if you
> "don't know the pros and cons" of the two languages?
>

Of course, one could really confuse the issue by coming in with things  
like this:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/30/WF-Results

in light of this:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all

The reason why should confirm many of the responses to this thread.