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Re: Worst thing you ever made with Perlby barrd (Canon) |
on Sep 28, 2003 at 16:39 UTC ( [id://294763]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Hi Juerd, That's kinda freaky as just today I looked at some code I wrote 10 years ago. It was my first public facing script capturing input from a HTML form page. I couldn't stop laughing, it was 500+ lines long, today I could condense it to 40 lines (or less with a bit of golf). To continue the laugh, back then due to the fact I didn't go to college or Uni (fully self taught) I had no concept of Db's, flatfile or relational and for the big giggle I'd sussed array's but had no idea what the hell a hash was (in those days known as an associative array). It was truly awful, no security, no error checking and certainly no sanity checking. I hadn't heard of CPAN yet either (not to mention POD, so yup, comments like "# This sub does stuff" were in there too). So ++ to you for bringing this up, I have learnt much since, from work colleagues and from the monastery. I'm still chuckling now with some of the syntax that I remember from "back in the day" that 'seemed' logical at the time but "oh dear" was just "wrong, wrong, wrong". That's made my day that has, thank you.
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