[NTLUG:Discuss] OT Perl vs C question

[Kyle Davenport]

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I have a real world case.  The most important consideration is the skill of
the programmer.  My company used to use a commercial product to parse a
proprietary format data file (sales transaction logs).  It was developed
with the typical MS C IDE.  I duplicated the functionality in perl
(actually I added functionality and ease of use features), and the perl
program was almost twice as fast as the compiled c program.

I also remember when I took over another developer's 4gl (SQL) codebase,
and routinely fixed them to run 50 to 100 times faster.

Kyle