Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:8249] Re: My first impression of Ruby. Lack of overloading? (long)"
    on 00/12/29, Jean Michel <jmichel / schur.institut.math.jussieu.fr> writes:

|Thank you for the example with 'alias'. Ruby is certainly marvellous in
|flexibility: the tools to implement any mechanism are already there!
|However, one then has a concern about efficiency. If too much is implemented
|in the library the language becomes less efficient. I guess I have to
|see in practice how the efficiency works out for a large mathematical
|project...

Rely on me. ;-)

You will soon know what kind of person I am.  Determin then if I'm
worthy enough to rely on.  But trust me for now.

Ruby is at least faster than Python, that means fast enough for most
(if not all) of the cases, according to Python people.  And NArray
beats NumPy in performance if things I've heard are correct.

							matz.