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- From: Aaron Watters <arw@big.att.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 22:39:27 GMT
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
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- Methinks the lady doth protest too much. :)
-
- 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.
-
- Easy there fella. I suggest anybody who is interested look at
- the available libraries for the respective languages -- or even
- the stuff that shows up in the newsgroups... Even if you don't
- know python, I think you'll understand it already in many cases.
- This cannot always be said...
-
- >That being said, Perl's
- >string-processing facilities make Python's seem like mere ed-compatible
- >patterns.
-
- Yes. Perl is very nice for really elaborate pattern matching. I don't
- do that much. Most internet protocols, for example, are really easy
- to parse... -- Aaron Watters
- ===
- If you reread your text, you will find upon rereading and editting
- your text that much repetition and redundancy can be removed when
- you look through your text for repeated ideas, upon reviewing your text.
- -- attribution lost
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