Excerpts from Danesh Daroui's message of 2014-07-22 23:14:48 +0200: > Wish you best luck! As Chris pointed out, when it comes to performance, you > might not gain a lot if you migrate from C to Pike. However, extra tests > never hurt. In your case, if you intend to write code for numerical > simulations i.e. Monte Carlo technique, or Algebraic operation using LAPACK > for example, then C might offer more mature solutions.
but if pike helps you elsewhere you can always wrap your c-code in a CMOD (a pike module written in C) and call it from pike. > Pike (again as Chris mentioned) is excellent for text processing. It also > offers garbage collector as well as strict type casting (similar to Ada) > which would prevent faulty code and over/underflow errors. btw, danesh, nice to see an article about pike published: http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/pike-programming-language/240168647 (can you share how the process of getting an article published at dr.dobb's works?)_ i'd love to see more, maybe something more specialized, some tricks from Turbo for example, where you show off what exactly it is that makes pike a better choice than other languages. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org BLUG secretary beijinglug.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/
