Actually I have managed to seperate myself from most of the grubby stuff by putting my routines into their own module(s). I've been pushing my employer pretty hard to let me reimplement a lot of this stuff (even so far as to replace all these hacked database (read flat text files) to real databases), yet right now the reality is I have to deal with all the corporate overhead... beauracracy and all... I've had implied to me that fixing these things would be a bad idea (lots of reimplementation???) but more than likely it is somebody wanting to be lazy.

For now I'm just trying to get one thing fixed at a time... however there is no reason to *not* be paranoid. I have had a few too many problems in the last year with people changing code bases under me without warning to not be worried and as such raise it as a concern.

Having people rely on your code and when it breaks not knowing where the problem is just stinks. Especially when you had nothing to do with the breaking.

In reply to RE: RE (tilly) 3: Perl Safety by gaspodethewonderdog
in thread Perl Safety by gaspodethewonderdog

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