http://martin.ankerl.com/2006/03/08/java-vs-ruby/ No movement is faster than no movement Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://martin.ankerl.com/2006/03/08/java-vs-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-101 I want to see the light! « 仁力的網頁 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:21:19 +0000 http://martin.ankerl.com/?p=54#comment-101 [...] I’ve also heard of the pay now or pay later concept. What I mean by this is Martin’s famous Java vs. Ruby timeserver example. This is a little complex so bear with me. One might look at this and say wow, Java is 4x more bloated than ruby. Or whatever. But do you see that little line “require socket” in the Ruby code? Well, I don’t think that is very fair - someone went through a lot of trouble to write a library for ruby that would allow a very short program to be written. To me it seems more fair to produce the following Java code: [...] [...] I’ve also heard of the pay now or pay later concept. What I mean by this is Martin’s famous Java vs. Ruby timeserver example. This is a little complex so bear with me. One might look at this and say wow, Java is 4x more bloated than ruby. Or whatever. But do you see that little line “require socket” in the Ruby code? Well, I don’t think that is very fair – someone went through a lot of trouble to write a library for ruby that would allow a very short program to be written. To me it seems more fair to produce the following Java code: [...]

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