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by stevebmark 2228 days ago
No, both your post and this reply are dogmatic. As I said, Ruby is the slowest modern dynamic programming language (and it's much slower than Perl). I really wish the Ruby community would listen to valid criticism. All dynamic languages are deeply flawed in some way, especially Ruby, and most ecosystems are open to learning from others.
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> All dynamic languages are deeply flawed in some way, especially Ruby

That sounds pretty dogmatic itself. You don't have to like dynamic languages - but that doesn't mean they are deeply flawed. The same could be said for statically typed languages with a different set of values.

> …much slower than Perl

To do some things but not others?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...