I think about it often, although I'm not much of a C programmer, I understand the basics. To me, Perl is an easy-to-use front-end to C. The most common big problems I encounter when doing a C program,are:

declaring the variable type, which are not intuitive, and worrying about overflows, and casting.

buffer overflows

lack of a linked list structure type (i.e. Perl's hash )

Perl modules are much easier to use than figuring out how to incorporate a C lib into your app. Static vs. Dynamic linking, etc.

Perl handles all of these for you, at the expense of speed. So as others have said, if you need speed, or are moving alot of data, C is better. But almost anything you can write in C, can be done in Perl, and it can be written faster. So write in Perl, and if you need speed, convert it to C.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re: (OT) perl cmp c by zentara
in thread (OT) perl cmp c by leocharre

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.