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Once you really learn Perl, I promise, you won't want to use any other language, and you will probably think you can solve all problems with it. Indeed, once I thought I saw a decent argument for NOT using it. A guy had an algorithm that indeed ate a lot of computation time when he emulated the c function that he had. In c the function took about 4 seconds. In Perl it took over 10 minutes to run. Ugly... but then a gent showed how to use the Inline::C module to compile that C code into a library that Perl linked to at run time and bingo.. the whole program ran in 4 seconds. I was hooked on Perl at that moment.
JamesNC

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hiding password on commandline by JamesNC
in thread Hiding password on commandline by Anonymous Monk

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