Actually, i was thinking of starting up my PERL training. So I'd like to know this: what are it's most common uses? How efficient is it compared to C++? What are the strengths and weaknesses? (This is kind of a repeat of what I said in the Python forum)
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Jump to PostIt's a very powerful language for text and data processing. It's a higher-level language than C++, so it allows you to work on doing stuff with the information rather than doing stuff with the data type.
Perl is interpreted, so it's bound to be less efficient than C++. That's …
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