Monks,

While perusing a /. discussion regarding an acticle in Queue by ACM about how programmers should be blamed for poor security, not languages, I ran across this comment.

Like with perl, I'm not always wanting to use strict and warn; I like not having to predeclare all my variables, for one thing...(and sometimes I'd have to lookup how to predeclare some kinds of hashes and arrays...)

While I understand that this is one random posting on the internet, does it not alarm some of you? I am sure there are a case or two where you want to program in the afformentioned style...but prefering it as a way of development? People are out putting the reputation of perl on the line with these notions of style and maintainability every day. What can we as a community do to promote higher quality code? Personally I take an interest in trying to better my: efficiency,maintainability, and style every time I write something new. Why are programmers lazy and/or have a lack of integrity in regards to code?

Grygonos

In reply to Keeping perl credible in the eyes of the world.. by Grygonos

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