A valid question...sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you think it won't, and then it does and you have to do some herculean things later to mak

A valid question...sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you think it won't, and then it does and you have to do some herculean things later to make it scale. Also, I think it's a fallacy to say that higher level languages necessarily mean more programmer efficiency. When I'm doing network programming in C, here's what it looks like: * Define a struct whose field layout matches the wire format * Cast the incoming buffer to that struct * Done By contrast, Ruby requires me to marshal data and painstakingly extract each field...all because it tries to abstract away the fact that memory is a flat array of bytes. Yeah, much of the time I'll be more productive in a higher-level language. But there are problem domains where that is not the case.