Warp wrote:
>   It's like saying that Python is 1000 times faster than C by running the
> C program in a computer made in 1980 and the Python program in a computer
> made in 2009.

The link in the first sentence takes you to where he explains what he's 
talking about in the follow-up.

"""
Life is good if you have applications or tools or games that you want to 
write. Even a language like Ruby, which tends to hang near the bottom of any 
performance-oriented benchmark, is thousands of times faster than BASICs 
that people were learning to program 8-bit home computers with in the 1980s.
"""

It's not a language shoot-out. It's saying "this is what 30 years of 
progress brings, when a "slow" language is 100,000 times as fast as a "slow" 
language from 1980."

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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