> Well, in this case good means fast and efficient....

Ruby's strength, like most any scripting language, is not necessarily
speed.

> 
> If you want easy to read and write at the expense of speed, why not
> use
> JAVA, what advantage does Ruby have over JAVA ?


MUCH easier to write (and read later).

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