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In-reply-to: "Matthew N. Dodd"'s message of Sat, 25 May 1996 20:25:05 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: Re: Adduser program in C
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Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 21:10:01 CDT
From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
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> On Sat, 25 May 1996, Dima Ruban wrote:
> > First: this is not small tool.
> 
> With diskspace at the price it is, I don't think size is an issue in most
> cases.

 i do not think that this is where the hit is, but I just might be wrong.
I think the problem is that perl does no real memory management and
grows and grows and grows and grows and grows.
 

Soren
yet another member of the anti perl/C++ school of thought.