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Perl's (C-based) regular expressions make it faster than many compiled languages for lots of real world tasks.

• gaius 11y ago
  Indeed, a "slow" scripting language gluing together fast C functions is a very productive strategy. Tcl/Tk is another example. Or NumPy.
  • noir_lord 11y ago
    PHP as well which in many areas is just glue over C in design.