Better Code Through Destruction (O'Reilly)

[Posted June 13, 2007 by cook]

Igor Gariev discusses Perl garbage collection on O'Reilly. "Larry Wall said that Perl makes easy things easy and hard things possible. Perl is good both for writing a two-line script that saves the world at the last minute (well, at least it saves you and your project) and for robust projects. However, good Perl programming techniques can be quite different between small and complex applications. Consider, for example, Perl's garbage collector. It frees a programmer from memory management issues most of the time...until the programmer creates circular references."