> >That solve you then need to resolve what 'performance' really >means - are you counting cycles? at the code monkey end or the >cpu end???
cpu end. Being a Java/C++ programmer mostly, I find perl very interesting mainly as it lets you do a lot in short time. But I find Perl as more as a declarative kind of programming language than the procedural ones like c/c++/java - In Perl you write *what* has to be done and in C/... you also write *how* it has to be done. And since, Perl lets you do one thing in many ways (for eg, two regular expressions can define same language), some of them might be better than the others - which one to choose. In java, I would be careful in choosing a vector vs arraylist. In c/..., arrays have fixed length. In perl, when I say my @arr = <STDIN>; I do not (or cannot?) specify the length of the array even when I know it has only 15 elements. So, what I want is about such issues in Perl, if any, that I have to be aware of when writing programs in perl. thanks. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
