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

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From: Kazimir Kylheku
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:17

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In article <JTV2J.96Feb12141108@mamba.cs.virginia.edu>,
John Viega <rust@Virginia.EDU> wrote:
 >Like I said, I've used both languages extensively. Perl's string
 >processing facilities are more concise than Python's.  However, I
 >know a lot of people, myself included, who feel that Perl's
 >conciseness in this area is a drawback.  Sure, it might be 3 to 5
 >lines of python code, but the operations are a lot clearer.  Besides,

Isn't python some pathetic parser whose idea of block structure is governed by
the _indentation_ of your code? 

...nuff said.
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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
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
Date: 15 Feb 1996 14:17:10 -0800
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