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Old Jun 4th, 2006, 4:46 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Harakim
I've been looking all over the internet and I can't understand why I would want to use Ruby? What is it's best use? I imagine it's probably not the language you would pick for a visual rendering system. I want to use Ruby if I can find good uses for it.
Ruby is a language with some very advanced features. For a skilled programmer, this can make it very fast to program. However, in terms of running time it's rather inefficient.

Ruby is best used on high-level systems that don't need lots of CPU, such as a web application.
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