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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- 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: 12 Feb 1996 06:40:47 -0600
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- In article <JTV2J.96Feb11120004@brunelleschi.cs.virginia.edu>,
- John Viega <rust@Virginia.EDU> wrote:
- >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.
-
- Okay, uhm... name one?
- Tcl is out; it's an abomination, having taken a cool idea and gone *way*
- too far with it. It has the ancient sh bug; it rescans too often. IMHO.
-
- >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.
-
- Fascinating. Look, I'm a C advocate, but I have to admit, well written
- perl is *stunningly* comprehensible. I'd use it for example code to
- illustrate an algorithm.
-
- >While you may not agree, I think that the more
- >people who can read my programs, the better. I don't see why someone
- >should need to be an experienced to expert programmer just to be able
- >to make some sense of my code.
-
- I agree; but I don't see the relevance to perl. If you want a hard to
- read language to pick on, go to alt.usage.english, and talk to them
- about this whole "ough shall be pronounced differently in any token ending
- with it" concept.
-
- -s
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