> Ruby is slow We're talking about code that calls external commands here. If one wants performance it is already doing wrong by calling external commands. Don

> Ruby is slow We're talking about code that calls external commands here. If one wants performance it is already doing wrong by calling external commands. Don't think it is relevant here. > encourages an esoteric convention over configuration style of OO code. I can't see that. Its OO is not so different from other languages. Perhaps you are thinking about Rails (as I said in the first paragraph).