Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 30, 2003 02:25 AM
I doubt anyone is still reading this thread, but I still think I need to clarify my point. I wasn't trying to attack you, or condemn your choice of program to use; I just wanted to point out a common misconception. A program written in Perl or Python will not *necessarily* be slower than its equivalent in C or C++. Even you note this fact in this reply. Why you mentioned interpreted languages to begin with is what confused me.
I think it's perfectly fine to choose a program based on performance. I think your inclusion of that in your selection criteria is perfectly fine, but the special note about "no interpreted languages" was unnecessary, and only results in spreading the misconception further (and in most cases was probably redundant anyway).
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Re:"interpreted" languages
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 30, 2003 02:25 AMI think it's perfectly fine to choose a program based on performance. I think your inclusion of that in your selection criteria is perfectly fine, but the special note about "no interpreted languages" was unnecessary, and only results in spreading the misconception further (and in most cases was probably redundant anyway).
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