This is not a pissing contest ... but calling it a fact is also silly. Perl has integrated debugging. Perl has pluggable runops so profilers can be attached to

This is not a pissing contest ... but calling it a fact is also silly. Perl has integrated debugging. Perl has pluggable runops so profilers can be attached to the platform (e.g. Devel::NYTProf). Distribution == CPAN and the 'make dist' system from ExtUtils::MakeMaker, again built in. The introspection is -different-, perhaps, but I'm not sure I'd say it's better or worse. Nothing meaningful? You set it to break into the debugger when that exception is thrown, and then debug it. I'm honestly not sure how this is any different an experience to in java - any java application not actively being debugged will write a stack trace to its log file and either exit or move on to the next request too, no?