And worse yet, there are people who are out there searching for perl code to learn from. Lo-and-behold, they find "a bunch of hard coded html sprawled everywhere" instead of CGI, and end up coding like
until they discover that they've been deceived.
I can understand how those scripts are created to run on any bass ackwards install that doesn't include any modules (since there are hosting providers who are retarded), but REALLY now!?!? You have to draw the line somewhere...