These are some jarringly flawed and frustrating comparisons that seem blatantly biased towards concluding that Perl is awesome and Java sucks. However, Perl is

These are some jarringly flawed and frustrating comparisons that seem blatantly biased towards concluding that Perl is awesome and Java sucks. However, Perl is really phenomenal for this kind of string processing – amazingly enough, it is actually often faster and more efficient than the C code you would have written. That said, I still only ever use Perl for one-liners and page-long filter scripts these days.