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The lack of a common, standard packaging/deployment mechanism. Something like PAR, but... core.

Also, PerlScript and Win32::GUI not being standard (on windows platforms).

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Re^2: Perl 5's greatest limitation is...?
by jacques (Priest) on Jul 28, 2005 at 06:05 UTC
    The lack of a common, standard packaging/deployment mechanism. Something like PAR, but... core.

    That's because "common" and "standard" are not in the Perl lexicon.

      There's a common, standard Perl lexicon?
        There's not just one, there's LOTS!!! ;-)