读书笔记

 Programming is relatively expensive to do: it takes time, and skilled personnel. It's labor-intensive. On the other hand, computers and computer time (often called CPU time after the central processing unit) are relatively inexpensive. Most desktop computers sit idle for a large part of the day, anyway. So it's usually best to let the computer do the work, and save the programmer's time. Unless your program absolutely must run in say, four seconds instead of ten seconds, you're okay with Perl.                                                      

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