in reply to Re^2: Is Perl right for me?
in thread Is Perl right for me?

It's anecdotal, or at least I've never seen the documentation of the performance of FORTRAN1 vs assembler; I suspect that it was on IBM platforms, for code fragments, when John Backus was still active.

On the other hand, it is, inarguably, more portable than assembler. I even have a good story about that ;-).

1  Also, it's no longer FORTRAN; this was changed in the Fortran 90 standard.

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Re^4: Is Perl right for me?
by RobinV (Sexton) on Jan 15, 2009 at 07:47 UTC
    Oh, Inline::C I love Perl now ^^
    All the functions of C and Perl. As for speed I think Perl is just fine.
    But you are right, I'll just install perl on my Laptop and'll start coding some small Math programs to get the hang of it.
    If I decide I don't like it I'll shuck it out.
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