Re: disadvantages of perl

I find most of my co-workers, who recently started using Perl, get rather frustrated with all the funny symbols. Also, the OOP is kinda weak. Moose fixes that, but costs a lot to load up and came a little late in the game.

I don't find these things so bad personally, but some people do. The real question is: why come to a site full of Perl fans to see what's so bad about Perl? We like it. Try the Python forums. They'll have a list of complaints.

-Paul

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Re^2: disadvantages of perl by citromatik (Curate) on Jul 02, 2009 at 11:32 UTC
The real question is: why come to a site full of Perl fans to see what's so bad about Perl? I find 2 reasons: Many Perl newcomers here at the monastery can give valuable experiences on what they are finding hard to learn of Perl Also, the weak points of any subject should be spotted by experts in that subject, and perlmonks has more experts in Perl than a Python forum Perl is great... but not perfect, that is what Perl6 is all about, no? citromatik	[reply]
Re^2: disadvantages of perl by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 02, 2009 at 18:03 UTC
Also, the OOP is kinda weak. Moose fixes that, but costs a lot to load up and came a little late in the game. Better late then never :) -stvn	[reply]
Re^2: disadvantages of perl by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Jul 02, 2009 at 23:39 UTC
Great post, but I have to nitpick, with the right incantations Moose start up cost is much less than it originally was. Even less once they get some stuff moved to C/XS. meh.	[reply]