in reply to perl's forte

IMHO, perl's forte is expressiveness and high-level concepts. Combine that with pragmatism, too.

Basically, a project where perl is a good idea is if a possible 10% loss of processor efficiency is worth a 100% gain in developer efficiency.

(87% of all statistics are made up on the spot... 43% of people know that.)

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