Why, oh why, do people insist on cargo cult code?

This code fails in the same ways that this code always fails, and then we get to repeat the same failure modes. For example:

Please stop with the cargo cult programming. use CGI.pm. It's there. It does the job.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

UPDATE: OK, I don't understand these downvotes. I'm passing along information that is accurate, and designed to prevent security violations, and to make the code more maintainable.

Are the anonymous cowards that are downvoting me doing it because it's technically incorrect, because security isn't that important, or something else entirely?

Or would people prefer nicey-nice "blind leading the blind" like we get in alt.perl? Because that's what'll happen if you keep disrespecting some of us that have been around the block a few times.

I'd gladly be willing to be called wrong on anything I post. If you think you have to protect someone else with a thin skin, you're damaging both yourself and them.

{sigh} Why do I bother?

In reply to Yet Another Cargo Cult non-use of CGI.pm by merlyn
in thread Upload Security (strip ../, etc.) by Russ

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