On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 07:26:27AM -0500, David Golden wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:01 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. > > Out of curiosity, do you know what version of Perl they were running?
Because #2 sounds like it's pre 5.8.1 Nicholas Clark
