On Wednesday, 28 בFebruary 2007 16:53, Levenglick Dov-RM07994 wrote: > Perl is, by nature and definition, a scripting language.
All modern scripting languages (including perl) are compiled to some byte code (this has been true for more than a decade). > As a result, I fail to see why anyone would consider using it for large > projects when a compiled language would run that much faster. What compiled language? C, Java, C#, two of these languages have byte code that runs on a virtual machine. So by definition your argument reduce to the relative performance of a specific byte code interpreter (Jit compile etc.) at some specific version. Generalizing under these circumstances is a mistake even if perl-5.8.8 performs better (or worse) than C# version 3.1415 or Java-1.6beta42. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." (H. Spencer) _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
