If somebody needs Perl::Critic to enforce a coding style, they have a problem that lies elsewhere.

BrowserUk and I - we are concerned about Perl::Critic because using it as a code quality insurance is wrong. Using it as a tool to teach perl programming is wrong, too. So what is it good for? It promises to solve a problem but does something else.*)

Same as with cars - we have more and more electronic aids for driving in our cars, ABS and ESP and stabilizers and what not, but those don't prevent people from making accidents, like driving full speed into a fog bank and join a pile of wreckage of 50 other cars, dead bodies and scattered limbs.

Those electronic devices are right now being a risk in themselves. Not only do tey make driving possible for people which don't have the skills, but they tend to fail, as with the poor guy whose speed-o-meter got stuck at 170 km/h, and he was forced to drive at that speed until the car ran out of gas. The system prevented him from interrupting the ignition also (clever!**). Those electronic devices now need firewalls on the internal data bus.

Drivers need better teaching and training if traffic accidents are to be reduced.

*) The same thing is seen with "Homeland Security". Surveillance to keep us save from terr'ists? Naah...

**) It's best practice not to interrupt ignition whilst driving ;)

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