[RobNottsUk]

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TBH I know very little about PERL, and I was unaware it was considered slow... I was under the impression it was semi-compiled rather than repeatedly run-time interpreted language, but I do know very little about it.


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Perl´s fast and flexible, if you know what you´re doing it shouldn´t be slow, there are ways of avoiding re-compilation for instance, and the regular expression operations are excellent.

But other languages like Python may be preferred by most as the source tends to look cleaner, with less arcane operators and tricky semantics.

Perl is very permissive and relies on the developer having self discipline to avoid maintenance traps, and unreadable code.