Not related to your question, more rather your field: I once wrote a neutralino detector simulator in perl for my physics degree...

This is some advance ammo for use against skeptics on your course. When someone complains that perl is too slow to use look at Inline::C or similar. Also don't try to work out which bits of the code to optimise up front, instead spend your time thinking about algorithms and then find your slow spots using something like Devel::Profile.

Perl is really excellent for modelling and simulations because it is fast to develop in and flexible. This is important as the chances are that any simulation may well take hours to run, so you will run them overnight. Perl might be slower, but does it matter that the simulation finished at 3am rather than 1am?

And finally, for when you venture off into MathsLand, don't forget to look into PDL. Good Luck, and don't forget to ask here if you get stuck.

--tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics

In reply to Re: Reading from two files at once by EvdB
in thread Reading from two files at once by sweeks

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