Re: how to test if an element belongs to an array or hash



Tad McClellan wrote:
> biomahui@xxxxxxxxx <biomahui@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [missing attribution here. It is bad manners to quote someone
> without saying who it is that is being quoted.

> > "Why use Perl if mips are scarce compared to data to process ? "
> >
> > I don't understand this senetence. What's mips?

> MIPS, Millions of Instructions Per Second.
>
> It is a unit used to measure the speed of computers (kinda).

> > I don't know any other computer language, so I'm learning perl.

> If execution speed matters more than programmer speed, then
> Perl (not perl, that's something else) is not the Right Tool.
>
> If raw speed is the overriding concern, learn C, or even
> assembly, instead.
>

Thanks for your explaination. I'll try to do better later.

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