Re: FAQ and string functions

[tmoran@acm.org]

> and your Ada can do it in 1 second, but you spend 10,000 seconds writing
> the code to support that".  How often are you going to run your code?
  Will the 1 second difference substantially cut your web server's
capacity, or cause your trading system to sell those million shares after
they've had a chance to drop another 10 cents apiece?  Will it let the
rocket crash, instead of soft landing on Mars?  Is there room in your
embedded sytem's memory for a Perl system?  Has the Perl system passed the
kind of examination and testing you would want before trusting it with
your rocket?  How long does it take to integrate Perl and that little
program with the rest of the system?
  If it's separable, run rarely, not safety or time critical, and
there's plenty of RAM & disk, then Perl certainly seems a better choice.