Re^2: Is Perl right for me?

@oshalla
I understand that perl is Interpreted.
I noticed that Perl is a lot faster then Java or Python (Faster as in Efficent memory use, I forgot to put that in there aswell).
I do not want to write inline C but it would be really usefull.
Umm, Ill look a bit more in the INLINE Cpan functions.
I fell for cpan since its a clear way to find functions and a good documented page.
Since Perl is a Scripting language it will work on both Platforms without to much fiddle (atleast I hope).
And thats why I love CPAN, sometimes in C you have problems with functions in other OSes.

Thanks for your reply I'll look more into it.

@swampyankee
I am sorry about any Gramar mistakes. I have the problem that I am very Dyslectic and I don't know why the text is formatted that bad.
Since I did write it with Enters and Such (\x0A\x0D ;)).
I do indeed a lot of Low Level stuff. Stuff on low levels like TCP and Memory Addresses. But I understand that when its Platform Aimed I would do it in C anyway.
Or I would do it in a language from the platform (Like C#) anyway.

@All,
I think that I came off a bit like a SpeedNut. For speed I would not need to much. I just want to cut down on my Coding time on all my small projects.
Thats why I want to switch to Scripting from Compiling.

I once started with my own scripting language. (developing one) but I thought it was quite pointless since there is such a huge pile of scriptinglanguages out there.
I'd just love to be able to execute Opcodes anyway though. But as I see there is a Inline::Asm I guess that its posible.

Thanks already. Anymore ideas / tips / comments?

Cheers,
Robin

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Re^3: Is Perl right for me? by swampyankee (Parson) on Jan 14, 2009 at 17:08 UTC
As I said, I find that 90% of the time Perl's performance is adequate for my needs, or (more importantly) those of my employers. In the odd 10% of the time that Perl wouldn't give the required performance, I doubt if any of its direct competitors could, either. Perl may have adequate performance for your needs; you would probably, as said by oshalla need to use Inline::C to handle the low-level interactions. I'd suggest trying it; the initial price is cheap, and I think Perl's documentation is good, although the documentation of CPAN modules varies from non-existent to quite good. As for the grammar and spelling issues, my younger daughter (now a college freshman) had 10 years of speech therapy and is LD; she's the one who has labeled me a grammar nazi. Information about American English usage here and here. Floating point issues? Please read this before posting. — emc	[reply]

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Re^3: Is Perl right for me?
by swampyankee (Parson) on Jan 14, 2009 at 17:08 UTC

As I said, I find that 90% of the time Perl's performance is adequate for my needs, or (more importantly) those of my employers. In the odd 10% of the time that Perl wouldn't give the required performance, I doubt if any of its direct competitors could, either. Perl may have adequate performance for your needs; you would probably, as said by oshalla need to use Inline::C to handle the low-level interactions. I'd suggest trying it; the initial price is cheap, and I think Perl's documentation is good, although the documentation of CPAN modules varies from non-existent to quite good.

As for the grammar and spelling issues, my younger daughter (now a college freshman) had 10 years of speech therapy and is LD; she's the one who has labeled me a grammar nazi.

Information about American English usage here and here. Floating point issues? Please read this before posting. — emc

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