Re: Let's face it, Perl *is* a scripting language

[ysth]

Without endorsing it, I'd like to mention Ilya Zakharevich's take on this.

[ikegami]

Signals have since been fixed to be safe.

[tilly]

More precisely we now have a choice. Working unsafe signals, or not working safe signals.

What I mean by this is that we can either choose to allow signals to interrupt long atomic calls (eg an attempt to connect to a database with DBI) but suffer potential core dumps, or else we can choose safety but not be able to use alarms to get timeouts to work.