On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, G.W. Haywood wrote:

> If you can write Perl you can write C, there are onlya couple of dozen
> keywords.  It's just that you're not so mollycoddled in C, you're much
> closer to the machine, and you have to plan further ahead (instead of
> waiting for the bang:).  I prefer it.

I think you're forgetting about little things like regexes and such.  Yes,
Perl and C share a lot of syntax, but there are many things you can do
easily in Perl that are brutal in C.


-dave

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