i've crashed perl a lot of times. but fortunately i can not remember how ;) what i can say is that it was almost everytime my own fault. now i seem to be able to write less dirty code because i even can't remember when the last core dump was ;) most times it had to do with bloat caused by inefficient recursions or eating a lot of memory etc. that really isn't perl's fault. i like perl because it's fast and stable. reliable on many platforms. but of course only if your code is clean ;)