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I understand the "not good enough for C" comment, but why "too good for Ruby and Python"? Not trying to pick a fight, just would like you to elaborate.
by ekimekim 13y ago
I understand the "not good enough for C" comment, but why "too good for Ruby and Python"?
Not trying to pick a fight, just would like you to elaborate.
- PeterisP 13y agoWelll, the reasoning behind it might be from two facts - a) Ruby and Python both are far better beginner/learner languages than Java & others - I mean, if some kid wanted to learn programming, I'd suggest to start in those because they don't have distracting boilerplate; and (b) other things being equal, Java does get you better execution performance than Ruby/Python; not on C level but it's halfway in between. But still "developers too good for Ruby and Python" is an interesting statement; IMHO the only ones who'd claim to be 'too good' for Python/Ruby would be authors of their own languages or maybe the hardcore Lisp or Haskell crowd.