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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
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Monday May 06, 2002
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.NET language independance
Interesting journal entry on why
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Multi-language paradigms (Score:2)
Perl is Slow? (Score:1)
Hmmmmm.
Re:Perl is Slow? (Score:2)
Actually, this depends on what you're doing. But since most of us associate Java with GUI apps, and since those GUI apps are *always* dirt slow, it's still a fair assessment IMHO.
See The Great Computer Language Shootout [bagley.org] for an idea of where Perl outperforms Java (and vice-versa).