From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T02:35:45+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

If I should pick just one or two words, it is: garbage collector.

Yes, garbage collector makes it easy for the programmer, but nothing good
comes without any cost.  Anyone dare to write a browser like Netscape in
Ruby?  Anyone dare to rewrite the Ruby parser in Ruby?

Regards,

Bill
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Friedrich Dominicus <frido@q-software-solutions.com> wrote:
> Yes, I can not see any reason why Ruby should worse than Smalltalk,
> Common Lisp, Python, Perl or even C. You will need some infrastructure
> which might have 
> to be adopted for Ruby, but why should there be a problem? It very
> depends on the application at hand. For many of them I would think
> Ruby is still fast enough.

> Regards
> Friedrich