Re: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

[Joey Mitchell Comeau]

> > > 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


And prototyping speed is also important, which I find perl excells at.