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gaius on May 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we spent two days making Perl faster

Indeed, a "slow" scripting language gluing together fast C functions is a very productive strategy. Tcl/Tk is another example. Or NumPy.

noir_lord on May 23, 2015 [–]

PHP as well which in many areas is just glue over C in design.

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