Here is my unrelated to the article perl memory...
I fell in love with perl at school because it seems easier that sh/awk/sed/etc... After I got a job I still used perl for everything. Perl5 came along and made a bunch of really needed improvements [1]
My problem was that at work they used rs6000 machines running AIX for everything and perl5 didn't work on AIX. So I couldn't use the latest toys. So I took time out and fixed dynamic linking so perl5 worked correctly on AIX.
http://web.mit.edu/darwin/src/modules/perl/perl/ext/DynaLoad...
Then later I got an email from Redhat offering me shares of stock when they went public. This was because of my perl contribution. That was clearly some shady scheme so I declared that email spam and threw it away.
1) But yes perl5 is quite a bit more complicated than perl4 and that bothered a lot of people.
I fell in love with perl at school because it seems easier that sh/awk/sed/etc... After I got a job I still used perl for everything. Perl5 came along and made a bunch of really needed improvements [1]
My problem was that at work they used rs6000 machines running AIX for everything and perl5 didn't work on AIX. So I couldn't use the latest toys. So I took time out and fixed dynamic linking so perl5 worked correctly on AIX. http://web.mit.edu/darwin/src/modules/perl/perl/ext/DynaLoad...
Then later I got an email from Redhat offering me shares of stock when they went public. This was because of my perl contribution. That was clearly some shady scheme so I declared that email spam and threw it away.
1) But yes perl5 is quite a bit more complicated than perl4 and that bothered a lot of people.