Anyone who has been following the recent string formatting security issue may be interested to know that eWeek contributor Larry Seltzer has published an article titled 'Is a New Vulnerability the Tip of the Perl Iceberg?'. In the article Perl programs are described as 'modem noise' and that Perl is designed for 'quick hack programming'. ASP and PHP are mentioned as languages that have succeeded Perl in popularity, but none of their security problems are mentioned.

IMHO the author fails to note that insecure code can be written in any language, and the focus of the article starts to stray from the issue at hand the authors opinions on Perl ... 'impossibly-terse regular expressions', 'they're (Perl programs) among the sloppiest and most unreadable programs out there'.

Is it just me or does Perl seem to be singled out in getting bad PR of late?
See also Attack on Perl or Perl's need better PR (again).

Martin

In reply to eWeek article: Is a New Vulnerability the Tip of the Perl Iceberg? by marto

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