Perl is messy (was Re: [Mimedefang] memory leak?)

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Les Mikesell wrote:

> > Perl is a mess, let's face it.

> Perl sits pretty close to the OS and it's C libraries.

Uh...  Read the perlembed man page.  Ugly as sin...

> I think the messiness you see does not originate in perl...

It sure does.  If you look at the API for embedding Tcl, for example,
it's a model of beauty compared to Perl's API.

Regards,

David.