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- 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.
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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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