Re: My first post to Sai

> > and because there are some things difficult to do in perl which are
> > easier in C. So succinctness definately isn't all.
>
> Nope, it's down to problem domain. It's all problem domain.
You basically seem to be agreeing with me. I didn't say C was always
easier. I was just arguing that succinctness wasn't power, and indeed it
isn't since different languages are designed to do different things
regardless of how succinct they are. Perl, being a high level language,
is more succinct than C, but there are some things that are difficult to
do in perl because they're way beyond what it was designed for (a text
processing and scripting language basically). I would not for instance
attempt to write an operating system in perl.
 Note, we might be talking about different definitions of the word
power. I'm not talking about ease of doing things. THat isn't power.
Just because a car has an automatic gear box doesn't mean it's more
powerful than one with a manual. Power is how much you're able to do
with something, not how easy it is.

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