What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow")

Re:What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are... by jesstaa on Sunday April 14, 2013 @05:13AM (#5546398)

Chinese is often even indecipherable to the Chinese and because of this there have been many attempts to simplify it. There is a subset that people actually use and the rest is avoided.

This is a similar case with languages like C++, Ruby and Python. The languages are terrifyingly complex, but the subset that most people use is reasonably usable. If you stray outside this subset there be dragons.

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Re:What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are... by danenania on Sunday April 14, 2013 @06:59AM (#5546585)

I see your point about C++, but I don't think anything in Ruby or Python could be described as "terrifyingly complex". They give you plenty of rope to hang yourself in various ways, but that's a different issue than language complexity.

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Re:What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are... by pjmlp on Sunday April 14, 2013 @01:28PM (#5547464)

The libraries are quite huge, for blue collar developers.

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Re:What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are... by rat87 on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:42AM (#5550581)

some of the dsl's might be hard to decode

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