Tanner Burson wrote: > I've tried to stay out of this thread, because I don't feel it's > providing, or furthering much intelligent discussion. But what on > earth are you attempting to say by this quote? Or are you just > throwing out random things for the sake of saying that somewhere, for > a given problem domain, there is a language more suited than Ruby? If > so thanks, point taken. If not would you mind clarifying by saying > something a bit more descriptive? Is the above quote actually in > reference to a given language you're attempting to introduce everyone > to? Or is it just a generic example with no meaning whatsoever? Sorry. Only 2 options were presented - slow-to-write fast-to-run C and fast-to-write slow-to-run Ruby - there are other possibilities. That's all.