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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
- 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: 11 Feb 1996 21:30:04 GMT
- Organization: Perl Consulting and Training
- Message-ID: <4fln4s$mgq@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
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- In comp.lang.perl.misc, rust@Virginia.EDU writes:
- :There is no need to sacrifice power for ease of use and learnability.
- :There are a handful of languages at least as powerful as Perl, and
- :several times more readable.
-
- Name them.
-
- :While you may fancy yourself a good enough programmer that you can
- :code in Perl as fast as anything, Perl has really shown itself to be a
- :"write only" language. While you may not agree, I think that the more
- :people who can read my programs, the better.
-
- If someone can't write perl programs that can be read by other programmers
- of that language, that says more about the programmer than it does the
- language. If one expects people who don't actually know the language to
- be able to read and maintain, then there's a different problem.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker tchrist@mox.perl.com
-
- Some are born to perl, some achieve perl, and some have perl
- thrust upon them.
-