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- From: jtv2j@brunelleschi.cs.virginia.edu (John Viega)
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- In-Reply-To: jnshapi@ecte.uswc.uswest.com's message of Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:48:42 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 16:51:41 GMT
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- In article <DMKsD6.IEt@da_vinci.ecte.uswc.uswest.com> jnshapi@ecte.uswc.uswest.com (Shapiro) writes:
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- > I program in both Perl and Tcl/Tk. My feeling is that it is often easier
- > to read Tcl/Tk code than Perl code because of the coding styles used by the
- > writers. Also, (and please do not flame me for this comment) Perl has some
- > very powerful functions which allow the programmer to do a lot in just a
- > few lines. Sometimes I have to think a bit before I can understand my own
- > Perl code, code which I may have written only a few days ago. This is not
- > the case with Tcl/Tk. Tcl/Tk code is generally easier to glance at and
- > understand.
-
- 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. Any time I want to use Tcl/Tk, I just use the Python
- interface to it.
-
- If you like Perl or Tcl, check out Python (www.python.org), as you'll
- probably be pleasently surprised.
-
- John
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- |John Viega "Non-structurally equivolent types in C |
- |rust@virginia.edu are polymorphic vis-a-vis their common |
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- |University of Virginia --George Williams |
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