Very low level? C? Nah. You want low-level, you program in Assembly Language--now *that's* total control and responsibility for everything! Compared to AssyLang, C is Pascal.
| Erik Ableson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Nemmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:32 AM
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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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