>Good luck getting 9p to work reliably faster than NFS Fast != good. A slower system which works more reliably and elegantly is often (usually) a better choice

>Good luck getting 9p to work reliably faster than NFS Fast != good. A slower system which works more reliably and elegantly is often (usually) a better choice. >awk intead of ruby I agree with this, though it's expressed poorly. For use-cases within the intersection of awk and ruby, use awk. For use-cases without, you probably shouldn't use ruby anyway. >It's easier and simpler to use C++'s std::map than implement a red-black tree from scratch in C. Easier, yes, simpler, no. When you use C++ you get all of the baggage that comes with it, increasing your complexity hugely.