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Article #6Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
From: Donal K. Fellows
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:34
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:34
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In article <9602122.8425@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>,
Fergus Henderson <fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> yogi@shellx.best.com (Yogi) writes:
>> So how is [Perl] different than say, the Tcl interpreter?
>
> It's much more efficient.
However, it is much easier to link in external C modules and build new
language constructs in Tcl than in C (and idiot could do it, and it
doesn't take much more effort to get it right. :^) Programmer
efficiency counts for a lot...
Donal (who uses C, Perl and Tcl where appropriate to getting the job done)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!cs.man.ac.uk!fellowsd From: fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C Date: 23 Jan 1996 11:34:02 GMT Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Message-ID: <4e2h3a$g3u@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> References: <4dhuoj$cbe@shellx.best.com> <9602122.8425@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: r8h.cs.man.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-User: 8028