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- From: mike@hightec.saarlink.de (Michael Schumacher)
- 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
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- Date: 12 Feb 1996 17:54:08 GMT
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- Tom Christiansen (tchrist@mox.perl.com) wrote:
- : In comp.lang.perl.misc, rust@Virginia.EDU writes:
- : :I fell in love with Perl a couple of years ago, until I learned
- : :Python, which can do everything Perl can, and has the advantage of
- : :being readable.
-
- : So many false assumptions in such short text.
-
- : First of all, any language can do anything any other language can do --
- : it's just a ``simple matter of programming''.
-
- Oh, really? Java, for instance, has no support for generic pointers, nor
- can it be extended to do so. Makes it pretty damn hard to write low-level
- software (e.g. drivers), no?
-
- So much for "So many false assumptions in such short text"... ;^)
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- mike
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