Excerpts from Danesh Daroui's message of 2014-07-22 23:14:48 +0200:
Wish you best luck! As Chris pointed out, when it comes to performance, you might not gain a lot if you migrate from C to Pike. However, extra tests never hurt. In your case, if you intend to write code for numerical simulations i.e. Monte Carlo technique, or Algebraic operation using LAPACK for example, then C might offer more mature solutions.
but if pike helps you elsewhere you can always wrap your c-code in a CMOD (a pike module written in C) and call it from pike.
Pike (again as Chris mentioned) is excellent for text processing. It also offers garbage collector as well as strict type casting (similar to Ada) which would prevent faulty code and over/underflow errors.
btw, danesh, nice to see an article about pike published: http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/pike-programming-language/240168647
(can you share how the process of getting an article published at dr.dobb's works?)_
i'd love to see more, maybe something more specialized, some tricks from Turbo for example, where you show off what exactly it is that makes pike a better choice than other languages.
greetings, martin.