Re: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

[Gustaf Bjorksten]

On Thu, 24 May 2001, John Porter wrote:

> 
> > > Let's see your benchmarks. I don't believe you have any.
> > 
> > I want to believe.
> 
> What, that Perl can be as fast as C for typical real-world
> tasks?  I'd like to too, but I already know better.

...and just when someone was saying that the list _never_ has flame
wars... :P

I think y'all missing the point. The original premise that "perl is not
fast enough _for_AI_" is incorrect IMHO. This is not about raw execution
speed! Perl is ace for modelling sh!t and definately has a place in my
AI hacking toolkit. I don't give a damn if it aint the bleedingest
lightningest-fast thing on two bits

L8rz,
gU5t4F


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