Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:23:39 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? (Was: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ...) Message-ID: <199611182223.XAA02378@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <57n2wfthtd.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> from Paul Richards at "Nov 18, 96 05:49:02 pm"
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As Paul Richards wrote: > This is a pretty silly point of view. 'C' is always going to be faster > than perl for correctly implemented solutions. Stating the Perl is > faster than badly written 'C' isn't very fair. For execution time, yes. But the status of `correctly implemented' is much harder to achieve in C than in Perl... For development turnaround cycle time, things like Perl or Tcl (where appropriate) are the clear winners. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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