Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

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I'm going offtopic here, but I suggest you learn C. If you ever want to
interface with your operating system or a 3rd party library where Ruby
bindings don't exist, you're going to need it. Knowing C will also give
you the ability to read and understand the Ruby source code (well, most
of it), which may in turn allow you to submit patches where you think
they're needed.

It certainly doesn't hurt on a resume.

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jamal Mazrui [mailto:Jamal.Mazrui@fcc.gov]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 10:57 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

With respect, I do not agree with the argument that one
should use an external language to get speed in Ruby. I do
not know C and have no desire to learn it. I program in Ruby
partly to avoid the low level details that C programming demands.