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 wrote:
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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 rele
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:54:31 -0500, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
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.
[BTW, I'm wondering if this thread should be moved to advocacy]
Nicholas Clark writes:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Jarrod Overson wrote:
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>> 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 "right" lan
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 "right" language to use
> going forward. For almost every project i've worked on in the past several
Yes,
