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by erik_seaberg
2339 days ago
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Perl was quirky at best, but performed very well on simple string manipulation, so it briefly replaced a lot of "grep | sed | awk" use cases where interpreted Python or Lisp might have been 100x slower. As an imperative language for novices, Python (based on GvR's earlier ABC) was slow but more approachable than Lisp, and the industry had a huge influx of novices at the time (arguably still does). Now that GC and closures are table stakes, Lisp no longer has major advantages until you're ready to create DSLs. |
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