> "These differences are not really a problem for most people, especially with computers becoming faster and faster every year. 2 While some programming languag

> "These differences are not really a problem for most people, especially with computers becoming faster and faster every year. 2 While some programming languages are certainly faster than others, what really matters is it gets something done." The difference in execution speed between, for example, the same task implemented in C versus Ruby can be 100 to 200x. This is not a trivial difference at all. In other words you can get a 100x execution speed with the same hardware. NOTE: Programming languages per se can't be measured in speed; what one can measure is programming language implementations. But the features and idoosyncracies of a PL will inherently affect how much speed an implementation could strike.