> The worst aspect of C would be pointers and unsafe memory access, which Perl doesn't have. In a practical sense, it doesn't. But it's there if you specifical

> The worst aspect of C would be pointers and unsafe memory access, which Perl doesn't have. In a practical sense, it doesn't. But it's there if you specifically go digging for it: $ perl -le 'print unpack("p", pack("p", "Hello, world."));' Hello, world. $ perl -le 'print unpack("p", reverse(pack("p", "Hello, world.")));' Segmentation fault (core dumped) $