From: thufir <hawat.thufir@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T08:23:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby is faster than all Object oriented Scripting langs

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:18:21 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:


> In fact, Dijkstra, in _A Discipline of Programming_, explicitly calls
> out that one must pay attention to the twin concerns of correctness and
> efficiency. And, while the hardware is orders of magnitudes faster and
> cheaper than it was when Dijkstra wrote that, throwing hardware at an
> inefficient design is still not economically viable in the long run and
> probably never will be.

This ignore's Moore's Law, and Java's success.  Microsoft as well is 
going the VM route -- which has inherent overhead.



-Thufir