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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Icon or Perl?
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Date: 16 Jul 90 19:03:22 GMT
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A friend of mine looked at some of the stuff which I was
attempting to do with Perl (involving primarily the manip-
ulation of words) and opined that I could do it with Icon
much easier.

Before I go charging off in a new direction: has anyone
done any comparisons of the two?  (Let me hasten to add
that I'm only talking about processing symbolic data, and
*not* system administration things).  

I've glanced at the Icon book (The Icon Programming Language)
and it looks good.  But my knowledge of how to really get
top performance out of either Perl or Icon is pretty low.  So
the question is whether or not someone who DOEs know how to
do these things has compared the two.




--
John W. Nall		| Supercomputation Computations Research Institute
nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu  | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
     "Los dioses eran computadores.  ?Que otra cosa podian ser??"