Re: Tcl faster than Perl/Python...but only with tricks...

Cameron Laird wrote:

Plenty of people--including book authors--*do* write
things like this in Python.

Okay, maybe, I did not check that. I started using Python just one year ago
and would never come to this solution, because I learned Python by doing
and looking into its Tutorial where they show you the "for line in
file"-trick as one of the first things.

Tcl, OTOH, I learned in the early 90ies, and used it ever since as my
favourite language, but I really had to think about my really fast
solution.

But I do not want to discuss Tcl vs. anything. I just compared the execution
time of some languages for the same thing, and how people seem to do them
naturally in that language. What I wondered then was the time, either
[gets] or [while] used.

Regards
Stephan
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