Now that said, I'm still more likely to blow my foot off with C than with Perl, thanks to the do-it-yourself memory management. But at least when it happens it's for the right reasons.
You're my hero, and I mean that.
I'm glad we cleared that up, and I'll readily agree that complex data structures via references is among the most glaring warts in Perl. It's obviously more complicated and error-prone than it ought to be, and moreso than other similar languages.
I've got this theory that the thing that people talk about most in any language or technology is the thing that is actually most broken about the language. People talk a lot about references in Perl, and I know they're broken by design. Similarly, I've got my suspicions about monads in Haskell, since people spend so much time trying to explain them...seems like there must be some fire under all that smoke. But I could be just imagining it, and I think I probably need to spend a lot more time with Haskell before I can accurately detect bogosities.
You're my hero, and I mean that.
I'm glad we cleared that up, and I'll readily agree that complex data structures via references is among the most glaring warts in Perl. It's obviously more complicated and error-prone than it ought to be, and moreso than other similar languages.
I've got this theory that the thing that people talk about most in any language or technology is the thing that is actually most broken about the language. People talk a lot about references in Perl, and I know they're broken by design. Similarly, I've got my suspicions about monads in Haskell, since people spend so much time trying to explain them...seems like there must be some fire under all that smoke. But I could be just imagining it, and I think I probably need to spend a lot more time with Haskell before I can accurately detect bogosities.