From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 18 14:25:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA17435 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:25:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17423 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:25:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA27870 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:25:01 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA15151 for chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:25:01 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id XAA02378 for chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:23:40 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611182223.XAA02378@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? (Was: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ...) To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:23:39 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <57n2wfthtd.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> from Paul Richards at "Nov 18, 96 05:49:02 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)