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- From: jlong@primenet.com (John Long)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc,
- Subject: Re: HTML Bulletin Boards
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 18:47:02 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
- Sender: root@primenet.com
- Message-ID: <4fjhqm$efv@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
- References: <3107CDDE.60E9@champs-elysees.com> <4e846n$au3@orac.mon.rnb.com>
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-
- In article <4e846n$au3@orac.mon.rnb.com>,
- Hugh J.E. Davies <hdavies@kzin.mon.rnb.com> wrote:
- >In article <3107CDDE.60E9@champs-elysees.com>, David Ralston <david@champs-elysees.com> writes:
- >
- >> I understand
- >>that Perl scripts create a high demand on the Servers CPU when people are in
- >>the process of posting to the Bulletin board.
- >
- >Your comments about perl are basically untrue. perl is not significantly
- >more processor hungry than 'C' when doing the same jobs, and it's
- >orders of magnitude easier to write and maintain.
- >
- How can it not be more processor hungry when it's interpreted rather
- than native?
-
- Also, being easier to write and maintain depends on experience of the
- programmer. Someone who's fluent in C but can't write a line of Perl
- would find it a bit easier to maintain C code. C programs, if written
- well, are very maintainable.
-
-