Believe me friends, if you know C and write your Perl as the same, you'll find the real power therein.

(Almost) every time I see some Perl code written in the style of C, that code

• uses non-idiomatic looping structures, and
• copies too much data around, and
• doesn't take advantage of language features (like regexps) which are written in C.

On the other hand, having some knowledge of the way perl's internals are written in C can give you some insights into optimisation and behaviour.

Simply asserting that one will "find the real power therein" when they "know C and write your Perl as the same" is retarded thinking.

P.S. -- is Java clumbsy? Rhetorically.

P.S. Were you drunk when you posted this drivel ?

-David

---

---

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! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

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:
	&		&
	<		&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.