Why do people use it? I've been learning Ruby at my work and it's infinitely better - no FIOC, half-assed OO implementation, shitty multithreading, no decent CPAN/Gems equivalent. Ruby is so much cleaner and easier to code with. Not to mention, Ruby is faster than Python according to the latest benchmarks: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
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Anonymous2013-01-15 1:38
C gcc median score 1.01
Haskell GHC median score 2.46
Lisp SBCL median score 3.43
Racket median score 5.40
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Ruby median score 53.12
Python median score 53.73
Perl 69.36
Being merely better than Perl doesn't cut it anymore. All slow shit languages with crappy culture will go extinct in the mad dash towards power efficiency.
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Anonymous2013-01-15 14:23
Being merely better than Perl Blasphemy! There is no such thing.
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Anonymous2013-01-15 22:07
One of those benchmarks shows Ruby being slower than the damned-slow C interpreter. :facepalm: