From: "robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asa Rossoff wrote: > > This is helpful, thanks. My reason for being concerned about both speed > > and memory are that currently my hardware is on the ancient side (P200 56MB > > ram), and secondly, I know those issues are both of great consequence in > > larger scale operations, like on web servers and heavy data analysis. > > I used to write Perl stuff on a similar machine. Compared with the > amount of memory something like OpenOffice eats, any script you write in > any language will have a minimal impact on system resources. You'd > probably only notice the difference if you were using the box as a web > server running data-crunching CGI applications that turned out to be > popular enough to have a number of people accessing them at the same > time, or if you use humunguous arrays or hashes (for example if you > write a program that involves putting every definition in the Oxford > English Dictionary into a hash, then don't expect to get your search > results quickly!). > > If you decide to go for Perl, mail me off list and I'll give you some > pointers (well Perl usually calls them references - "pointers" is more > of a C thing ;-)). I'm not an expert, just a guy who uses it for simple > practical applications, but that's probably an advantage. > > BTW, I'm not trying to start a Perl/Python war here. Apart from anything > else, if we get going on that, those weirdo Ruby hackers will join in ;-)
ha :) Okay, I may take you up on that. *Adds your email to address book* In the long run, it would clearly be a good idea to learn Perl no matter what, since it is so widely used, and so many modules and scripts are out there for it already. I haven't tried the cpan script from Linux yet -- but when I used it to install some modules under Windows, I was surprised to see it consume nearly 30 mb of paged-in ram. This was one thing that made me question whether Perl is good with ram usage. Asa
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