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- From: jtv2j@mamba.cs.virginia.edu (John Viega)
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of 11 Feb 1996 21:30:04 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:13:46 GMT
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- Tom Christiansen writes:
- | 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.
-
- Python, Icon, and ML all come to the top of my head. Of course, since
- all languages have their strengths and weaknesses, it depends where
- you want your power. As a general purpose more powerful language that
- is also easier to use than Perl, I'd also suggest any member of the
- Modula/Oberon family.
-
- However, let us not overlook that both power and readability are a bit
- subjective. What is obvious code to you might not be obfuscated to
- me, and vice-versa.
-
-
- | 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.
-
- But it still can say something about the language, especially if
- people complain in droves about how much the language detracts from
- readability, like people do with Perl. I don't see many complaints
- about how easy it is to write hard to read Python programs.
-
- John
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- |John Viega "Non-structurally equivolent types in C |
- |rust@virginia.edu are polymorphic vis-a-vis their common |
- |http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jtv2j/ entity, the core dump." |
- |University of Virginia --George Williams |
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