Have you seen the mod_perl guide section on porting? I have found that if I am faced with 1000 lines of messy code, I can usually rewrite it from scratch in half that, with less effort than it would be to maintain the spaghetti. As St. Larry said:

"If the burden of decision making is on the programmer, then it's possible for the programmer to make a mess of things. It's possible for Perl programmers to write messy programs. (In case you hadn't noticed.) It's also possible for Perl programmers to write extremely clean, concise, and beautiful programs." -- Larry Wall

If it's ugly, replace it with something beautiful.

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