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seriously, almost anything else. try python or perl.

• donw 18y ago
  As somebody who did lots of Perl for many years, spare yourself the pain, and do Python. That said, Ruby is still my 'favorite' language -- it's just so much fun to code. But the libraries, and frankly horrible interpreter, have caused me to chuck it out the window for my company. The speed actually isn't the big problem -- it's the long-term maintainability and flexibility.