What hurts me is that Perl has fallen out of favor so much ... I'm contemplating jumping ship myself, and moving to Ruby or Python, not because of anything intrinsic to the language but just because Perl is going the way of Cobol or Fortran.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > The other day I was at a client that uses Perl in part of their system and > we > talked a bit about the language and how we try to promote it at various > events. > > Their "Perl person" then told me he would not use Perl now for a large > application because: > > 1) Threads do not work well - they are better in Python and in Java. > > 2) Using signals and signal handlers regularly crashes perl. > > 3) He also mentioned that he thinks the OO system of Perl is a hack - > that the objects are hash refs and there is no privacy. > > So I wonder what hurts *you* the most in Perl? > > Gabor > > -- > Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ > Perl Ecosystem Group http://perl-ecosystem.org/ > -- Check out my LEGO blog at http://www.brickpile.com/ View my photos at http://flickr.com/photos/billward/ Follow me at http://twitter.com/williamward
