Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-29 Thread Johan Vromans
[BTW, I'm wondering if this thread should be moved to advocacy] Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org writes: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Jarrod Overson wrote: Once a full rewrite is on the table it's hard for a team and/or company to not at least question whether or not perl is the

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-29 Thread Paul Bennett
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:54:31 -0500, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni sebast...@aperghis.net wrote: So I wonder what hurts *you* the most in Perl? In terms of Perl itself, apart from the reference syntax, the thing that really annoyed me recently was the lack of advanced debug tools, for example

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-29 Thread Sven Dowideit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 out of curiosity, did you try Devel::Leak::Object ? http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Devel-Leak-Object-1.01/lib/Devel/Leak/Object.pm When I was tracking down a leak somewhere in foswiki, i added some functionality to AdamK's module (which he's now

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-29 Thread Bill Ward
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