Belatedly...

One of the factors for choosing Perl was that everyone has said how you can easily see what you are doing, until you realise that the people who are saying this are all mainly just using Perl to aid writing their c.

I don't think there are many people who "mainly just (use) Perl to aid writing their c". Speaking as maintainer of PDL, which according to me is the most exaggerated Perl-to-write-C environment that exists, the aim of at least PDL is to enable writing Perl things that run Really Fast. In other words, the Perl in PDL is to enable Perl, just utilising C to do so (just like Perl itself which is written in C).

If you know differently, I'd be highly interested to hear about it.

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