"complicated" <> "games"

If your post was intended as flamebait, I guess it will do, but if it was a genuine question, you really need to think a little bit more about, well, how things work.

An articulated truck is unlikely to win an F1 race, but that doesn't make such a truck "worse" than an F1 car - it's all about context.

For the record, the longest perl code I've written was about 1500 lines, and knocked several kinds of sh*t (speed, error handling, etc.) out of the previous C solution we had for the task.

Basically, if your task involves heavy string manipulation (as my 1500 liner did), then perl is probably going to be a very good solution. Likewise if you need a simple script to perform some basic sys-admin or provide some extra functionality to a website.

Un-ask the question.

Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk

In reply to Re: Do complicated Perl programs really exist? by Melly
in thread Do complicated Perl programs really exist? by newbie

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