From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2012-08-19T01:39:23+09:00
Subject: Re: case vs if-else

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

And fast-to-write also means that it is quicker to get working code,
which you can benchmark and find where the actual performance
bottlenecks are (which may not be where you'd initially expect), and
refactor those for performance -- whether that's more carefully
crafted Ruby, or using a lower-level language like C or Java.

It lets you spend your programming effort where they are most needed.