This really isn't a comment on whether one language is better then another, but how different languages are better for different tasks. Of course, it doesn't tend to focus on how many things are done with C that might by more easily accomplished in perl (or possibly vice versa, but I can't really think of any..?). Especially with something like the example given in the parent node, which smells a lot like 'homework' and lets me rant about something I always found irritating in the C class I took. Why do they always blood assign stupid text processing programs in C?! I could write the same program in like, 3 lines of perl code, but instead it takes me 400 lines of C (Granted, a large portion of it is from writing my own linked list.. but still) it was irritating, especially after having used perl for the last year or so before I took the class. It would be nice if language classes tried to focus on their strengths, rather then weaknesses.
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