A lot of people have said what they don't like, but I haven't seen any limitations yet. Sure, you have to write more code, but Perl still hasn't stopped you from doing anything.

What is the method call performance stopping you from doing? I've found a lot of other things that are a lot slower than that, so I haven't had to worry about it. When I code Perl, I don't even think about the number of subroutines. It's not even an issue.

For anyone else who cares to post, I'd like to see a specific story about what you couldn't accomplish because Perl didn't have the power to do it. There are things that are annoying, but remember how good you have it. Merely being annoyed would be heaven to people working in other languages.

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>

In reply to Re: Perl 5's greatest limitation is...? by brian_d_foy
in thread Perl 5's greatest limitation is...? by BrowserUk

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