The alioth shootout Computer Language Benchmarks Game
I'm tired hearing from people that perl is dead or slow.
But basically they are right. If you check out a popular language comparison,
perl is almost on the last ranks, if listed at all. Behind python, php and ruby. And we all
know that at least ruby is slower than perl.
Partially because those perl scripts are pretty lame, not optimized as the comparable scripts. And parti…