[geeks] One of these days....

[R. Lonstein]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:22:12PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> I'm going to remember that writing and debugging 10 lines
> of perl is 100,000 times harder than writing the same
> code in C.

It isn't for most cases. If you're writing something for entry to a
contest like Perl Golf or Obfuscated Perl, it might.

> And here I was thinking I could have it all done in 10
> minutes. 45 minutes later, I'm switching to C after trying
> to figure out how a variable disappeared between one line
> and the next.

Can you show the code?

- Ross