Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)

I'm also more familiar with python, but the speed argument doesn't seem to 
be valid anymore. Benchmarking the same two scripts on contemporary 
interpreters on my decidedly non-contemporary 800MHz Athlon yields:

and@glotze:~> python -V
Python 2.4.4
and@glotze:~> time python sieve.py 300000 > /dev/null
real    0m1.121s
user    0m1.092s
sys     0m0.032s
and@glotze:~> ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-linux]
and@glotze:~> time ruby sieve.rb 300000 > /dev/null
real    0m1.579s
user    0m1.568s
sys     0m0.008s


(yeah, I know python 2.5 is out, but debian stable and gentoo still use 
2.4 per default)