>Plus the code is compiled and tends to run more efficiently than Ruby for instance. :-) Those words don't mean what you think it means. You're right that most

>Plus the code is compiled and tends to run more efficiently than Ruby for instance. :-) Those words don't mean what you think it means. You're right that most CLR code will be faster than equivalently idiomatic Ruby code that accomplishes the same task, but the reasons for it have nothing to do with compilation.