unbiased benchmark

Lie Ryan lie.1296 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 01:07:35 EDT 2009


Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
>>
>>>> Even more amazingly, it takes approximately 30% less time to say
>>> 'ruby' than to say 'python'!!!
>>
>>
>> But "python" scores 55% more points than "ruby" in Scrabble, so that's 
>> understandable. It also explains why both languages are much better 
>> than "C".
>>
>>
> Yes and apparently to get ruby moving anywhere you need to put in on 
> train tracks! Some people think it is aesthetic pleasing, bah, humbug it 
> doesn't even have a true cleavage! The only one that actually made some 
> good use of this otherwise useless mineral was by bouncing a lot of 
> light in it.
> 

But ruby don't bite...

PS: actually I don't believe Monty bites anything other than his lunch 
either...



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