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Re: Perl essential ?



Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> [bmc@blimpo(11:01pm)-~]%perlcc hello.pl
> (....)
> [bmc@blimpo(11:01pm)-~]%l hello
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 bmc      bmc        444528 Mar  1 23:01 hello*

Not surprising.. that one-line perl script gets compiled into a 17572
line C program that is pure horror (a 11391 line fuction to initialize
perl, 314 #defines, 5717 lines of tables and about 60 globals).

Wichert.

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