RE: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

[Lee Goddard]

From: John Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

> Paris Sinclair wrote:
> > Perl is only slow when you use algorithms that were intended for PROLOG,
> > LISP, C/C++ or Java.
>
> No, that is fundamentally mistaken.

Ahhh....that's better.

> Unless you can implement your critical algorithmic pieces on the
> perl regex engine, you're going to be slow.

Or Yacc and Lex


> Let's see your benchmarks. I don't believe you have any.

I want to believe.

lee