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Re: off topic - diff for html docs?



On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> > what about comments -> Perl is wonderful
> I have a strong dislike of Perl as a tool used to rummage in the contents

You are free to try and implement the said regexps by hand in any case you
need. One that likes meaningless work always can do it.

> when the words 'fast', 'robust' and 'optimized' are uttered in connection
                          ^^^^^^

This one I don't get. Why PERL might be not fast, is clear for me, but why
your C program will be more robust, is unclear at all.

> then Perl (by someone else), then in C, by me, and gprofed until it
> reached disk speed at which point I left it alone. This is the ONLY cgi

I fear you lost on it more time that all of it's optimized runs gained or
will gain, added together for about 10 years from now. First law of
optimization is "Don't". ;) Unless you are doing it for your own
personal fun, which is another tale.

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