Ovid's post over at Perl.com addresses a couple of issues:

-why misconceptions about the scalability of Perl code are so widespread
-"why is there so much bad Perl code out there?"

A short paraphrase of the answers that Ovid gives amounts to something along the lines of: "quick and dirty code" tends to be bad code; and coders new to Perl frequently stumble on web resources that contain a lot of bad code.

Ovid's solution: Use more CPAN. He says "Most of the tools you need to build most common applications have already been written and are waiting for you on the CPAN."

For me, at least I figure I'll avoid perl.about.com's "Top 7 Perl CGI Resources", which Ovid fingers as a source of bad code. I'd be interested in hearing what other monks think about the issues raised.

Apologies in advance to Ovid if I have mis-quoted him in any way.

In reply to Ovid's "Please Stop Using Perl 3" by Scott7477

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