Re: Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming Language

From: Kenny McCormack (gazelle_at_yin.interaccess.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:31:44 GMT

In article <36pap2F56ktt8U1@individual.net>,
Michael Mair <Michael.Mair@invalid.invalid> wrote:
...
>>>Python and Perl are not as fast as compiled C. ... and they never will
>>>be.
>>
>> When you make this statement, you are ignoring the human factor.
>> For a programmer of middling ability, it is quite likely that their Perl
>> programs will run as fast or faster than their C programs. (You do the
>> math...)
>
>Yep. I remember that for some early perl 5 version, perl beat grep...
>don't know whether this still holds.
>Apart from that, when dealing with problems perl and Python have been
>created for, you usually save enough development time for very many
>runs of the program.

You do realize, of course, that I am saying that most people write such bad
C programs, that even _at runtime_, they are better off having written in
a script lang.