Hi guys,

Just a quick ques, because, though I know this is a perl forum, well ..., I've always thought c-programmer and perl-programmer relations are probably very amiable ..., with alot of folks doing both, so I thought ..., (and it's probably already been asked), I thought I'd ask ... whether there are some very rough guidelines for choosing to write up something in Perl or in C?

My main rule of thumb was: if dealing with strings/text: go for Perl. If numbers? C. And, indeed, right now, I'm dealing with matrices of numbers, and so, have been using C.

However, I have to say, that the stdlib functions, fseek and its brothers, are syntactically verbose -imho-, and not so powerful either.

There is the option of, let's say, doing preprocessing in perl and number crunching in c, but I'd prefer all in one makefile (I'm assuming you can't have one makefile for both), so it's either one or the other.

So I was wondering ... has anybody any broad and brief guidelines of when to choose between the glory that is Perl, the grandeur that is C? (excuse me, Edgar Allan :-)).

In reply to when to c, when to perl by stabu

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