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Re: off topic - diff for html docs?




> what about comments -> Perl is wonderful

I have a strong dislike of Perl as a tool used to rummage in the contents
of a large cache or larger repository. I will not start a flame war here
but most heavily loaded places seem to have a very strong preference for C
when the words 'fast', 'robust' and 'optimized' are uttered in connection
with a project. Having done some profiling on such programs (filters to be
exact), I tend to support their choice.

I once wrote a man->html converter that uses the output from man in a cgi
script. Both the cgi and the converter were written in shell (awk & sed),
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
application that has instant response on that machine. Guess what the
other cgi applications were written in. Again: this is NOT the beginning
of a flame war. I will not repond to provocations ;)

Peter