strict is in there (just commented out for right now ;-)

No, no, no, no, no! The whole point* of using strict 'vars' is to keep you from making mistakes during development. If you turn it off then, and only turn it on when you've ironed out all the bugs, you're depriving yourself of the best typo-protector you could have.

Same goes for -w, while I'm at it...

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* Possibly untrue, but reasonable in context...