I suggest people read this paper by Brother Kernighan: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html (IIRC there's something similar in The Practice of Programming too)
Which shows that for certain tasks, perl is as fast as *or faster than* C. Although it does use rather old versions of perl. If you're going to argue about speed, I want to see meaningful benchmarks, otherwise you're just engaging in idle speculation. -- David Cantrell | Degenerate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance. -- Cartoon Law X
