On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
  Perhaps, but while Perl is convenient and I use it
incessantly for
 many projects for which it does a good job, I suffer no illusions as
 to how comparatively poor its performance is (and this is relevant
 when the server is a 25MHz 68030). 
The problem is that the kind of things mainframes are used for are
*extremely* performance-critical.
Peace...  Sridhar