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Very informative link. You can see Python's poor PR at work in the headline on the right, "Python eats Australian family dog."
by ericb 19y ago
Very informative link. You can see Python's poor PR at work in the headline on the right, "Python eats Australian family dog."
- astrec 19y agoHa! In all seriousness, Ruby doesn't fare any better.
- ericb 19y agoTrue: "JFK Documents Include Reported Ruby, Oswald Conversation."
- stcredzero 19y agoPoor PR is one of the things that happened to Smalltalk. "Don't complain, only code," is good advice. That should also extend to: "Don't Hype." Smalltalk, Java, Python, and Ruby all made the same mistake, however. They started gaining prominence before they got fast enough. We need to stop making the same mistakes again and again. There's no reason why even a late-binding Pure Object language shouldn't run at 25% of the speed of compiled C on many benchmarks. There's no reason why programs in these languages shouldn't be widely known to be faster than naive implementations in C.