Re: (no subject)

[Erik Ableson]

Hmmm - it's more a question of abstraction.  Is C's approach to 
abstracting human ideas into code conducive for solving the problem 
that you have at hand ?  In most cases, the answer is probably not 
since it works at a very low leve where you're responsible for all 
sorts of boring (but crucial!) bit and pieces like memory management, 
input buffers and memory pointer spaces - bleah.

Perl is an excellent compromise between the human and the computer. 
Perl is exceedingly versatile for certain tasks that don't mind needing 
a relatively large executable and memory footprint.  C is ideal if you 
want to write a perl interpreter, a device driver, and operating 
system, a high performace commercial application...

Perl is great for when you have data, and a question and need to get an 
answer, a repetitive task to automate, and a zillion other things where 
you just want to plunge into making something work.

If you're getting into bioinformatics, you should check out the 
O'Reilly book "Perl for Bioinformatics".  A niche bestseller but it 
sounds like it might be useful.

Cheers,
Erik
Le 27 mai 04, � 17:02, Fred a �crit :
"Perl is the most powerful computer language ever devised by the mind 
of
man"
Don't get me wrong I totally agree with you, but Perl was made in c so 
I
would think that since it derived from c, c might be more versital? I 
might
be wrong, but that is how I would look at it.

BTW, QUE's Perl 5 by Exaample is the book that I started out with.
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Perl is the most powerful computer language ever devised by the mind 
of
man.
And you can quote me on that. =)
Anthony Nemmer
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