WHY is python slow?
Niklas Frykholm
r2d2 at mao.acc.umu.se
Fri Jun 8 02:50:24 EDT 2001
>now, if we accept the postulate that premature programme optimisation
>is an evil and that python has been around much longer than ruby, has
>much better documentation and that in Bruce Eckel's words:
>"...For some reason, the creator of the language saw Python and
>decided to do a clone, and people who had never used Python thought
>it was a good idea. Harsh, maybe, but that's my impression: if you've
>used Python at all, you wouldn't give Ruby a second glance.
Sad to see someone like Bruce Eckel engage in language bashing. The
statement "had never used Python" is utterly misleading. The
Python-awareness in the Ruby-community is much greater than the
Ruby-awareness in the Python-community.
Ruby and Python are my favorite languages. It just breaks my heart to
see them claw at each other's eyes. C'mon guys, can't we just get
along?
// Niklas
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