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Re: Eu vs perl

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Dec 07, 1999
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From: Roderick Jackson <rjackson at CSIWEB.COM>
Subject: Re: Eu vs perl

I forwarded Rob's rebuttal, along with my comments, to Mr. Wall.
He was nice enough to send me an e-mail in return, but unfortunately
didn't bother to address but one of the points brought up by Rob.
Since it's long winded, I'll just quote part here:

Quote:
"Incidentally, I rewrote the sieve benchmark in decent Perl, and it's
only 7.4 times slower.  So don't believe all the Euphoria hype either
about Perl being 34 times slower than Euphoria."

He's actually proud of this. Sigh..... and again, he has his numbers wrong.
I read 44x

Quote:
"I've read all the archives of the Euphoria mailing list,
and there seems to be a persistent ignorance about the existence of
Perl's debugger.  This tells me there is nobody in the Euphoria
community who knows Perl."

Hell, I, for one,  know about perl -d. Pretty primitive, isn't it?

I had commented on the unreadability of Perl:
Quote:
"Good grief.  Perl is extremely readable to at least a million people,
not just the language designer.  Stop parroting your hypemeisters."

I thanked him for his reply and told him that, next time I have to write
an accounting program where the source must be audited, I'll be sure to use
Perl.:)

Mr. Wall seems awfully concerned about what he terms "a toy language",
doesn't
he?

Irv