From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-08-17T19:33:31+09:00
Subject: Re: case vs if-else

2012/8/17 Nathan Ahmed <elihu5991@gmail.com>:
> So then what is the point of ruby if it's just for human-readability?

That's precisely the point. Fast to write, easy to read.


> Isn't
> it all about functionality? What good are interpreted languages? Not saying
> they aren't, yet still.

Ruby (as well as other scripting languages) have the functionality,
they only don't have speed. They are good for complicated tasks which
would be tedious to write in lower-level languages, as well as tasks
where you don't need the speed of lightning, or there already exists a
different, worse bottleneck.


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