On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 13:01, 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. > > 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? Proper thread support would be nice but I can live without it.
What really hurts and that I find painful is unicode support. Strings can have utf-8 inside and yet they become mangled after various operations/interactions with other strings. It's really painful. -- Emmanuel Rodriguez
