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.

10 Comments

  1. smokediceman · October 29, 2003 Reply

    i knew it, perl sux 😉

  2. admin · October 29, 2003 Reply

    yeah right. That way everything sucks. C/C++/Java/perl/ruby/python ( yes appu python too )

  3. mekin · October 29, 2003 Reply

    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

  4. admin · October 29, 2003 Reply

    hehe well said. Programming language fights are meaningless

  5. ravi · October 29, 2003 Reply

    Okay, you sux. *t-i-c*

  6. mannu · October 29, 2003 Reply

    Yes, programming language fights are meaningless. Python is the best ;-))

  7. fus · October 29, 2003 Reply

    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.

  8. fus · October 29, 2003 Reply

    just out of academic curiosity what problems did you find with python ?

  9. tariquesani · October 29, 2003 Reply

    perl did not crib about deps (DBI)
    Depends how you installed it – your CPAN shell is current??
    OMG – what am I writing in public.. 😉

  10. noelladsa · October 29, 2003 Reply

    Phew! Thank you. I’d have to hear the remainder of this flame from both of you’ll offline!.

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