yitzle wrote: > There's been mentions of efficiency. > I'm under the impression that for the uses Perl is put to, the > efficiency of a loop is sorta irrelevent. If you are doing > harddrive/network access, the performance gain of one loop over the > other is more of less invisible. > Come to think of it, the time for interpretting got to overshadow the > performance gain... > For running mathematical stuff, wouldn't you use C?
Probably FORTRAN. :-) John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and in short order. -- Larry Wall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
