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I do not consider Perl especially pleasant to use but it's faster than every other scripting language and it has a killer library. So if you're looking to avoid

I do not consider Perl especially pleasant to use but it's faster than every other scripting language and it has a killer library. So if you're looking to avoid C but can't stomach the slowness of Ruby or Python consider it.

igouy 17y ago
> it's faster than every other scripting language http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/lua.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/lua.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=luajit&lang2=perl&box=1 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...