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
to find memory leaks. None of the tools I found or was pointed to worked
in my case.
I have to second this. Trying to track down a memory leak recently in a
fairly large and complex multi-fork()ing application left me with a bunch
of modules that basically stated "use this on the data structure or piece
of code you already know to be leaking, and you'll get a lot of technical
diagnostic information", but there seemed to be nothing I could just
attach to the application in any way that would help me *find* the data
structure or piece of code that was leaking. Coming up with unit tests
that were complicated enough to stably reproduce the condition essentially
boiled down to rewriting the entire application from scratch in a
TAP-oriented way.
--
Paul (PWBENNETT)
