[ale] semi [OT] making learning ruby programming fun?
Leam Hall
leamhall at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 05:38:06 EDT 2013
On 03/27/2013 11:34 PM, Doug Hall wrote:
>
> If you want really fast programs, you might not want ruby. You might
> want C or Java, or even assembly language. As fast as equipment has
> gotten in the past ten years, in many instances, it makes sense to
> optimize around the programmer, not the program.
When I've used chef is was incredibly slow, even on modern hardware.
That may be a big reason Chef move from Ruby behind the scenes to Erlang.
Optomizing around the programmer makes sense for very small programs and
one man shops. However, I think a lot of the language has to be ignored
if you want to build something big.
Java != Speedy Gonzales. There are some fast scripting languages but C
is still the fastest cross-arch option.
Hmm...
Java: Slowpoke Gonzales
C: Speedy Gonzales
Ruby: Hophead Gonzales
Go: Baby Gonzales
Python: OCD Gonzales
Assembler: Granpa Gonzales
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