When I started my current position as an AIX administrator - I was in awe at the amount of Perl code we had running on our systems - I though "Cool", I can do this. After rewriting several hundred scripts - its no longer cool. I tried explaining to people I work with why

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
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is a good idea - they still don't get it, they say their code works fine. Case in point - we have a cgi script that allows us to control our printers - I took one look at it, added

#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
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Needless to say, the script(s) failed miserably, I rewrote the several thousand line long flub and they complain, because it doesn't look the same, and if I leave who will maintain my code? I find myself writing a lot of what I consider decent code to conform to the poor performance and bad interface standards that the people I work with are used to - In turn I penned the node perl programming for a living.

I thank the Gods everyday for perlmonks, it provides some clarity to the fog.