I am sorry if I have confused you all. I did not say that C is bad, or it can't be done in C. I was just trying to
point out that Perl (and Java etc.) already has a lot of built in stuff and it makes life easy to write stuff. Of course, you could also do it in assembly code, but why?
I agree that you could do certain things in C for speed. I also agree if I have all the necessary
libraries (such as Vectors) I would not mind writing in C.
I was also wondering that if I have an example like this, people who are learning perl will get excited about perl!
In C, for example, if you do not know how many elements are there, you could, say, allocate 100 elements first, and then when you reach 100, you could allocate 200 elements and then move those 100 elements to the new array! Why do I want to do that when a language already does that for me.
I was also looking for a place for this and could not find a proper category (Please suggest one).

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