From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2010-02-03T05:33:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

El Martes, 2 de Febrero de 2010, Marnen Laibow-Koser escribió:
> With Ruby, I can develop better code faster than other 
> languages, and have more fun doing it.

I think this is one of the keys of Ruby: it's really *fun* to code it.


> Why not Ruby?  Unless you're doing low-level systems programming or 
> certain real-time applications, I can't think of a good reason.  And 
> even in those domains, Ruby might be a good choice as a wrapper around C 
> or something...

Well, when you need some features as real parallelism (various native threads 
running at same time using different CPU's) Ruby is not a good choice (well, 
JRuby allow it thought). 


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>