You can certainly do entirely absurd things in Perl. But it is a lot easier / safer work with. You get / can get a wealth of information when you the wrong thing in Perl.

With C segmentation fault is not always easy to pinpoint.

However the tooling for C, with sone if the IDEs out there you can set breakpoints/ walk through the code in a debugger, spot more errors during compile time.

There is a debugger included with Perk but after trying to use it a few times I have given up on it.

Give me C and Visual Studio when I need debugging.

On the positive side, shooting yourself in the foot with C is a common occurrence.

I have never had a segmentation fault in Perl. Nor have I had any problems managing the memory, the garbage collector appears to work well. (at least for my needs)