RE: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

If they badly wanted eval within C, they'd probably get it badly.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Porter [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 24, 2001 8:48 AM
> To:	[email protected]
> Subject:	Re: Just starting out.. newbie help :)
> 
> Lee Goddard wrote:
> > if you can do it in Perl, you can do it in C,
> 
> Unfortunately, not true. Perl is a very dynamic language,
> on the order of Lisp.  That makes it capable of things
> compiled languages can't do.  There is no "eval" in C.
> 
> Of course, these languages are Turing-equivalent, so you
> really could do "eval" in C if you really, REALLY wanted
> to. But no one wants to bad enough to actually do it. :-)
> 
> 
> > and as the compiled C
> > is not interpreted, and can be better optimised, it's usually faster.
> 
> Yes. For the things that *can* be done in C, they will usually
> be faster.  The major downside is the horrendous *programmer*
> inefficiency of writing in C instead of a high-level language
> like Perl!
> 
> -- 
> John Porter