Perl core dumps
Today for the first time ever, I was noticing my perl code was seg faulting and dumping core. Its was a long cycle of events : fetchmail-procmail-perl-mysql-cron-mail and each time I just assumed the perl part was fine and was check everywhere else.
Anyway it turns out perl did not crib about deps (DBI) when I installed DBD::mysql , it installed it fine and after that kept on dumping core coz if could not find DBI.
i knew it, perl sux 😉
yeah right. That way everything sucks. C/C++/Java/perl/ruby/python ( yes appu python too )
no it doesnt … its a vert handy tool …
1st : This was the 1st time it happened with him (has never happened with me)
2nd : this was a problem with how the package was built, and its not perl’s fault
3rd : why am i even bothering .. anyone who’s used perl slightly knows that “perl sux” is BS
hehe well said. Programming language fights are meaningless
Okay, you sux. *t-i-c*
Yes, programming language fights are meaningless. Python is the best ;-))
as schwartz writes in ‘learning perl’, its ‘write only’
the sucky part is the ‘write only’ part
i wouldnt call perl code maintainable in any form, would you ?
and linguists should stick to natural languages, what say, eh ?
oh ok before this turns into another language flaming contest, perl is great. there i said it. i withdraw.
just out of academic curiosity what problems did you find with python ?
perl did not crib about deps (DBI)
Depends how you installed it – your CPAN shell is current??
OMG – what am I writing in public.. 😉
Phew! Thank you. I’d have to hear the remainder of this flame from both of you’ll offline!.