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Article #4324Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
From: Michael Schumacher
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:54
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:54
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Tom Christiansen (tchrist@mox.perl.com) wrote: : In comp.lang.perl.misc, rust@Virginia.EDU writes: : :I fell in love with Perl a couple of years ago, until I learned : :Python, which can do everything Perl can, and has the advantage of : :being readable. : So many false assumptions in such short text. : First of all, any language can do anything any other language can do -- : it's just a ``simple matter of programming''. Oh, really? Java, for instance, has no support for generic pointers, nor can it be extended to do so. Makes it pretty damn hard to write low-level software (e.g. drivers), no? So much for "So many false assumptions in such short text"... ;^) mike
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!htc01.hightec.saarlink.de!mike From: mike@hightec.saarlink.de (Michael Schumacher) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C Followup-To: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java Date: 12 Feb 1996 17:54:08 GMT Organization: HighTec EDV-Systeme GmbH Message-ID: <4fnus0$qrc@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> References: <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com> <JTV2J.96Feb9185929@garnet.cs.virginia.edu> <DMKsD6.IEt@da_vinci.ecte.uswc.uswest.com> <JTV2J.96Feb11115145@brunelleschi.cs.virginia.edu> <4flm87$m0c@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: htc01.hightec.saarlink.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]