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I learned Ruby in 2003 and used it regularly until I decided I hated it, and started using Python instead. Not going back there, with all the clueless hipsters now making up most of its `community' since that `Rails' incident. Also, CPAN.
If Ruby is indeed faster than Python these days, I'm quite impressed. Back in 2004 or something, I occasionally had no choice but to disable Ruby GC for some loops because it was so mindbogglingly inefficient.
Anyway, if I need speed, I use C
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