On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:38:46 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

>>> Now you know why I dislike scripting languages in general. ;-)
>> 
>> They work for what they're designed for - I use awk quite a bit, perl
>> occasionally, and shell scripts on rare occasions.
>> 
>> But if I wanted to write something that was usuable by a general
>> computer user, I'd look to develop in a compiled language, as a general
>> rule.
> 
> The kind of tasks I typically want to do involve heavy number crunching.
> Scripting languages aren't terribly suitable to this...

Scripting languages aren't designed for performance, as a general rule, 
so yes, that wouldn't be appropriate for a scripting language if you have 
complex calculations or lots of data to process.

Jim

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