Re^2: Can we clap the face of skeptics?

Perl is fast because it has 10 years of optimizations behind it. Ruby is not as fast because it simply doesn't.

Ruby is a couple of months older than Java.

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Re^3: Can we clap the face of skeptics? by Mutant (Priest) on Apr 23, 2008 at 11:01 UTC
Ruby is a couple of months older than Java. Java has a lot more money behind it though. I do find it amusing that Perl has gone from being a relatively slow language (when I first started using it about 10 years ago), to a relatively fast one. The relation in question being to the other languages that are commonly used for similar domains.	[reply]