[Xapian-discuss] NetBeans and Java Bindings

[David P. Novakovic]

Oh this is too funny. :)

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Kevin Duraj <kevin.softdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please review the following articles written by Twitter developers and
> read about the reasons why they decided to stop programming back-end
> in Ruby. It is always better to learn on failures of others than on
> your own.
>
> Reference:  http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/twitter_on_scala.html
>
> PS: And yes language X is not equal to language Y, unless you want to
> invent your own mathematics.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin Duraj
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:52:52AM -0700, Kevin Duraj wrote:
>>> Do you think that the shift towards Python and Ruby from Perl is the
>>> cause of world wide economic crisis and global warnings? We all know
>>> that Python and Ruby needs least 2-5 times more CPU and electricity to
>>> consume in order to compute the same amount of data as Perl.
>>
>> I think unsupported assertions that language X is faster/slower than
>> language Y are essentially just weak attempts at trolling.
>>
>> Even if you had any evidence to back up your claim, this wouldn't be
>> an appropriate place to discuss such things.  The time Xapian takes
>> is likely to dominate the time spent in the calling language.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Olly
>>
>
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