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Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C

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From: Aaron Watters
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 22:39
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Methinks the lady doth protest too much. :)

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.

Easy there fella.  I suggest anybody who is interested look at
the available libraries for the respective languages -- or even
the stuff that shows up in the newsgroups...  Even if you don't
know python, I think you'll understand it already in many cases.
This cannot always be said...

>That being said, Perl's
>string-processing facilities make Python's seem like mere ed-compatible
>patterns.

Yes.  Perl is very nice for really elaborate pattern matching.  I don't
do that much.  Most internet protocols, for example, are really easy
to parse...  -- Aaron Watters
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