Re: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE

[smoot]

This thread is quite curious to me.  Perl in most respects is a *higher* level 
language than C or C++.  It is certainly higher level than Cobol.  Perl has a 
lot of built in operators and functions that make life extremely simple for 
doing text manipulation.  I have written code in both Perl and C and some C++. 
I find I can code most algorithms faster in Perl.  The code may not run as 
fast, but for most tasks that is a non-issue.

Perl does have a much simpler data structure model than either C or C++.  For 
example there really is no such thing as a "struct" type in Perl.  But with 
references and hashes, you can easily simulate such structures.
  
-- 
Smoot Carl-Mitchell
Consultant



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