# Re: How to speed up ruby and make it as fast as possible

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 14, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-to-speed-up-ruby-and-make-it-as-fast-as-possible/98442 "2006-07-14T20:01:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamal86](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@jamal86](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal86)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-to-speed-up-ruby-and-make-it-as-fast-as-possible/98442/1 "2006-07-14T20:01:38Z")

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[Please forgive my top posting.]

I think C is not taught as much in universities these days because the  
emphasis is on languages with native object orientation. C# is, indeed,  
good for vocational reasons, but many also consider it worth teaching as  
a language with a superior design than Java, which, in turn, is superior  
to C++. These languages naturally learned from their predecessors and  
improved on them in significant ways.

I agree that it would be beneficial to Ruby development if I already  
knew C. I did not study computer science in college, however, and have  
picked up higher level languages as my interest in programming grew.  
Technically, C may not be strongly typed, but it does require variable  
declarations, memory management, etc., which is the kind of low-level  
programming I want to avoid. At this point, I think I can contribute  
more by application development with Ruby than by learning C to improve  
the language, itself.

Regards,  
Jamal