[SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 4, Steve Pacenka wrote:
> Perhaps unfortunately, Perl IS suited for this now.  So is the similar TCL+Tk, 
> which at least has a smaller and simpler basic design.  I'm typing this within 
> the wonderful EXMH mail client program which is a GUI front end to the mh or 
> nmh mail user agent suite.

  Please don't take this as flame bait...to this I can only say "can
be made to function in this role" != "suited to this role".

> an outstanding example of code reuse.  I find Perl to be extremely efficient 
> in lines of code terms, taking many fewer lines for the kinds of programs I 
> write in it (file processing, number crunching) than any other language I 

  Fewer lines, sure...but how about machine cycles?  Bytes of memory?

      -Dave McGuire