On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:17:42AM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> What is more important (most of the time), is how fast the language is 
> to program in, not how fast it runs.

absolutely.
the money saved on coding can be invested into faster hardware

> I can code in python 5-10 times 
> faster than in C, and I know both equally well. No doubt pike has the 
> same advantage? I'm not a piker :-)

yup. pike and python are in the same league here.
and if you don't like pythons syntax then pike is for you.

pike has a few fetures that i miss in python though
that said, i do like at least the indenting in python :-)

greetings, martin.
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sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world.
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Martin B�hr       http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/

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