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- From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
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- Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 13:32:23 -0800
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- >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Clark <bclark@bclark.is.ge.com> writes:
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- Brian> With languages, it seems like the same attitude, but I think the
- Brian> motivations are different. I am currently programming a rather large
- Brian> cgi system...primarily in Perl. I catch myself "feeling" like perl is
- Brian> the greatest programming language in the world. I know in another nine
- Brian> months I will probably "feel" like C++ or Java or some other unknown
- Brian> lang are the greatest in the world because that's what I'm doing, at
- Brian> the time.
-
- No you won't. You'll be wishing you were programming in Perl again.
- Perl actually *is* better.
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- :-) :-)
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