Bad idea letting anyone edit code

I confessed to it being crazy! There used to be six of us, all competent, never a problem. Now there are many more, some who know little Perl.

(one wonders at the source code change control system you have)

RCS for these files, CVS for all the code that reads them.

Don't store the hash in code, store it in...

Well, a database would be better. The problem is it's complex and large; the code that manipulates it will take a while to write.