From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2010-02-03T06:51:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

On 2 Feb 2010, at 20:33, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> El Martes, 2 de Febrero de 2010, Marnen Laibow-Koser escribió:
>> 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). 

And you've always got parallelism via multiple processes - often a much saner architectural choice.


Ellie

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