> > We'll just have to have to disagree about awk. I starting learning Perl > > to avoid learning awk :-) > > But awk is smaller and simpler than perl. So it should be faster > (esp. at startup) for small and simple tasks. > As usual: Right tool for right task.
awk starts faster but perl is more efficient because it compiles the code prior to execution. So for any long files or big programs Perl is significantly faster than awk. But awk is just so elegant and quick to write that I use it for everything except huge files. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
