From: Kingsley <kingsley@...>
Date: 2003-10-01T07:05:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on ARTIMA

Well I don't know if this comment is factually correct or whether it is just a 
re-iteration of an anti-ruby chinese whisper.

But If David Garamond the author is right in what he says, then I would much 
prefer people to aknowledge this and work to improve it, than retort with 
over-exaggerated claims about how wrong he is.

Positive criticism should be welcomed, embraced and seen as an opportunity for 
advancement.

Thats my thoughts anyway

Kingsley


On Tuesday 30 September 2003 22:19, Bob X wrote:
> From the talkback:
>
> "Ruby is over 10 years old, very popular in Japan, gaining popularity in
> other parts of the world, have thousands of users and hundreds of hackers.
> However, the implementation (Ruby has only 1 currently, written in C) is
> pretty weak. It's slow, does not support native threads, does not do JIT
> compilation (not even bytecode), needs a better GC, etc. It is especially
> so if we compare it with Java and Smalltalk, who have gotten real good
> implementations (JIT compilers, fast GC, threads, etc) nowadays."
>
> Comments?