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I'm not an eval hater but this is prone to injections.

(OTOH is vulnerable code maybe the best solution for people abusing the monastery as code writing service. ;)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Sep 16, 2021 at 11:59 UTC

    > maybe the best solution for people abusing the monastery as code writing service ;)

    Yes, this seems to be getting worse lately!

    I'm reminded of Ian Phillipps' little perl program-generator of 1990. All it did was ask you to enter the program you wanted written ... then post to comp.lang.perl with a title of "I don't think perl can $program_you_wanted_written". In those days, there were plenty of Perl zealots eager to prove that Perl could indeed do it! :) (Mentioned at The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part I): Introduction).

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      > Yes, this seems to be getting worse lately!

      not sure about that, I think in absolute numbers it's still the same person(s) creating sockpuppets.

      It's just that the serious questions are getting relatively rare.

      Not sure how much the competition by SO and Reddit matters.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        I fear that we have few serious beginner questions because we have very few serious beginners. Most of the questions you refer to come from people who find themselves forced to maintain a perl program. They really do want a code writing service. Should we discourage them?
        Bill
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