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- From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
- 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: 03 Feb 1996 08:40:44 -0800
- Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA
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- In-reply-to: Eric Vought's message of Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:32:31 -0500
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- >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Vought <ewok@localhost> writes:
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- Eric> The other issue, is : Is the Perl code readable? (then again, is *any*
- Eric> perl code readable?)
-
- Sir, those are fighting words. :-)
-
- Y'know, if all I had was a english-to-french phrase book, I would find
- wandering around France *very* difficult, I imagine. In fact, most of
- the lengthy signs and descriptions would not be "readable". I might
- even come to the conclusion that I could find *any* words in France
- "readable", and wonder how come the people of France survived with
- such an "unreadable" language. I mean, they use mostly the same
- alphabet, but all those *letters* seem to be out of place!
-
- I'd probably have to actually spend some time reading and studying the
- language before french was familiar to me, and in fact, after that I'd
- probably find those same signs very "readable", and actually start to
- understand and enjoy the people of france, and eating French Bread and
- French Toast and French Fries and all the food of France.
-
- I hope you see my point by analogy. Perl code is imminently readable
- to me. I am fluent in Perl. Appaarently, you are not. So it is
- *unreadable* to *you*.
-
- If you need some help understanding Perl, I perhaps can recommend a
- good book or two. :-)
-
- print "Just another Perl hacker,"
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