From: Aleksei Guzev <aleksei.guzev@...>
Date: 2003-10-02T20:45:46+09:00
Subject: Re: C or C++?


"Paul William" <maillist@bestworldweb.homelinux.com> wrote in message
news:1065092409.545.11.camel@debian...
> On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:45, Joe Cheng wrote:
> > I'd like to start writing Ruby extensions.  Does it make a difference
>
> Why do you want to write extensions? Why cant you write ruby code? If
> you want to write and bindings for a library and the library is C++ then
> you had better write the binding in C++ otherwise I recommend using C.
>

I think C is useful for acessing some system resources.
Massive computations should be made with assembler or at least fortran ;)

Aleksei Guzev