in reply to Perl to C to C+ to C++ to Visual C++

You should get the Advanced Perl Programming book from O'Reilly. It has comparisons to other languages in every chapter. And then there's "Perl versus...".
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Re: Re: Perl to C to C+ to C++ to Visual C++
by clemburg (Curate) on Sep 06, 2001 at 12:47 UTC

    For a very nice comparison of Perl vs. other OO languages, notably C++, see Appendix B of Object Oriented Perl by Damian Conway.

    If you really want to understand the issues in comparing one language to another, you should read Essentials of Programming Languages.

    Christian Lemburg
    Brainbench MVP for Perl
    http://www.brainbench.com