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in reply to Re: Perl vs C
in thread Perl vs C
The only two languages I know with any proficiency are perl and C. I started with perl (after shell scripting and html/javascript stuff) and then decided to learn C, which is probably common (I imagine it is also common the other way around, but I bet the desire to "move downstream" is a More Significant Factor).
?"vs."?: I might guess that they are in fact as different from one another as you could get, despite all the similarities. Perhaps this is why you see such a proliferation of perl variants (php, ruby) alongside the proliferation of C variants and stuff grounded in C, like perl itself. But "the ground" of C is really memory management, which is fundamental to everything; learning perl, it is not much of an issue initially; learinging C it is the issue initially.
Anyway, thanks Grandfather for those two cents :) The only phrase that gave me pause is "no I/O at all", which seems oxymoronic no matter what (intuitively speaking), tho I won't argue the point further.
ps. I just noticed the rest of the thread! I have not been using this forum in a while and got confused...so I will leave it at that and start reading, it is a topic close to my heart :) |
Re^3: Perl vs C
by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 15, 2009 at 05:48 UTC
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There is a hard to make distinction between the C language and the almost universal set of functions provided through libraries. Try using C without any #include statements and see just what isn't there - printf for a start. The same is true for many languages of course. Consider what you actually get as part of the Java language when you take out the "libraries".
True laziness is hard work
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