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by pmelendez 4831 days ago
That's not entirely true, for instance a ranking algorithm would use way more CPU that I/O (in most cases you load your data in memory anyway)

In any case, How you would justify using Ruby over another script language like Python, Perl, etc? All of them are comparable in terms of productivity and seems to be orders of magnitude faster.
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rb2k_ 4831 days ago
The majority of applications don't do a lot of number crunching.

I'd recommend Ruby because it's readable, it has a good tool ecosystem a great community and design decisions that please me. Python and Perl are just not what I'd like to see in a language. I will use them if I have to, but given the chance I'll use Ruby.

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igouy 4829 days ago
>>The majority of applications don't do a lot of number crunching.<<

Exactly how do you know what the majority of applications do or don't do?

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