Well, you are forgetting a
my $i if you want
to have equivalent code. I maintain the code is nearly
identical - there's a few lines more in C, which look a lot
for such a short program, but it wasn't linear in the size
of the Perl program. Had you have had 100 of such loops,
you'd have had the same amount of extra lines.
I never claimed that C would have been a better choice than
Perl. Instead, I said that I didn't consider C a good first
language either. IMO there's only one reason to learn C before
learning Perl and that's because there's so much of C in Perl.
It makes you a better Perl programmer.
Abigail