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/