Re^9: Google considers Perl a useful skill

WordPress made IE look like it was on top of security.

I don't like PHP at all, but judging the language by one nightmare application is unfair. Yes, PHP might make it harder than necessary to write safe code, but there are worse offenders, like assembler or Hunchback-Gollum-Salvatore.

Looking at perl, let's not forget Matt's Script Archive, which is a good example for bad Perl code. And while we are at it: strict is off by default. warnings are off by default. Taint mode is off by default except when running on Unix and real and effective user and/or group ID differ. Warnings and strict are off by default even then.

And don't make me start complaining about the documentation of Exporter (1, 2) or CGI (1).

Alexander

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Re^10: Google considers Perl a useful skill by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 13, 2022 at 14:15 UTC
Oh, I know and I specifically thought of mentioning MSA but the CPAN was a better comparison for what I saw. This was c 2003 and it wasn’t some lone dude’s awful code that unwitting people were using, it was one of the PEAR packages that everyone was using while also putting passwords in GET query strings as a standard practice. I know the community and code improved since then but a lot of the training wheels without the bike critique of PHP still applies.	[reply]

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Re^10: Google considers Perl a useful skill
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 13, 2022 at 14:15 UTC

Oh, I know and I specifically thought of mentioning MSA but the CPAN was a better comparison for what I saw. This was c 2003 and it wasn’t some lone dude’s awful code that unwitting people were using, it was one of the PEAR packages that *everyone* was using while also putting passwords in GET query strings as a standard practice. I know the community and code improved since then but a lot of the training wheels without the bike critique of PHP still applies.

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