Years ago I worked with Rogue Wave Software, which sold C++ libraries. There was a customer who wanted to sort a huge dataset, and RW's sort code took somethin

Years ago I worked with Rogue Wave Software, which sold C++ libraries. There was a customer who wanted to sort a huge dataset, and RW's sort code took something like 15 minutes to sort. Perl took 15 seconds. I don't know if it was ever figured out why, but it was (is) just one of those signs of how Perl still can be amazing at some things. Still have my O'Reilly 1st Annual Perl Conference bag around. Good times.