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- From: fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 09:57:47 GMT
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- In article <312C9376.62BE@cbi.tamucc.edu>,
- Jonathan Scott Duff <duff@cbi.tamucc.edu> wrote:
- > Glen C. Perkins wrote:
- >> opinions, fight it out. The result has been a significant
- >> expansion in the number of languages I use, rather than
- >> just using C for everything. (Actually, the truth is,
- >> it has expanded my repertoire enough that I *never* use
- >> C for *anything* anymore!)
- >
- > Hmm... Why do you never use C anymore? It sounds like you
- > are fanaticizing over languages instead of just using the
- > right one for whatever job you have at hand.
-
- That's a little bit inflammatory...
-
- It is probably the case that Glen uses languages that fit the
- application domain better (eg. Perl for string mangling) and which
- have a much lower overhead in terms of programming effort. Sure,
- anything you can do in Perl can be done in C, but that doesn't mean
- that it is a good idea to do so. Reusing someone else's work saves a
- lot of time for most people.
-
- Both lisp and ML are much better at handling trees of data than C
- (except in a very few circumstances), and ML at least is a very strong
- promoter of correct programming (ie. it catches far more common
- programming errors than even the best C compiler ever could).
-
- I still use C for many things though...
-
- Donal.
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