Re: Scheme vs. Perl, et al (was Re: Use scheme || nothing)

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 1994 16:43

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:-> In gnu.misc.discuss, shriram@cs.rice.edu (Shriram Krishnamurthi) writes:
:If you have specific examples of where Scheme -- in theory -- will
:lose over Perl -- in theory -- please post them.  I am (and others
:like me are) interested in hearing about what people like you use
:these langauges for, and what problems we need to address.  At the
:same time, go easy on using words like "drivel" in a poor context.

There's an optimization of the following simple-minded perl code
that runs extremely quickly:

    @patterns = `cat patternfile`;
    chop @patterns; # trailling newlines
    while (<STDIN>) {
        foreach $pat (@patterns) {
            if ( /$pat ) { print }
        } 
    } 

--tom
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Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com


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