Marv, yarv - how is the most downloaded standard implementation called before the language cops bite - is just so unbearably slow for anything besides gluing things together. After that many years it still leaves me baffling how such a mediocre implementation is still actually accepted by it's community.
The language is nice though. I wouldn't vote for the everything is an object paradigm today.
Python may be faster than Ruby, but it's not "C" faster. It's the language extensions like NumPy that do the heavy lifting, and those are usually written in compiled languages like, say, C.
The language is nice though. I wouldn't vote for the everything is an object paradigm today.