> Efficiency has certainly never been one of Perl's selling points. It has been, in fact. It's been faster than Python and Ruby for a very long time (though th

> Efficiency has certainly never been one of Perl's selling points. It has been, in fact. It's been faster than Python and Ruby for a very long time (though that's changing now with some new implementations like pypy). > I imagine there's a trapdoor available if you want to use floats anyway; actually, knowing Perl, I'm sure of it. Yes, if you use scientific notation (1e-1 etc.) you get floating points.