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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: reverse foo('bar')
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.001456.24237@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 00:14:56 GMT
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rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:

>Hell, perl is already half as big as emacs.

I don't know if I would say that.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      1706316 Jan 26  1990 /usr/local/bin/emacs
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root       319265 Jan 16 06:20 /usr/local/bin/perl

The above are on a Sequent S81.

>Interpreted environments are superior to compiled ones
>in everything but speed.

Especially in portability.
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