I waited a day to see if I felt the same way about what you have said - I do. On the one hand you casually dismiss the very idea with a handwave ('I don't find this particularly interesting') and yet you want it removed because you think it promotes the creation of "malware". That isn't interesting? Hmmmm, well, why teach anyone to program, then? You never know how the potential miscreants might use that skill later on!

I have always believed that attempts to hide knowledge from others are far worse than what someone might do with that knowledge. The dirtbags of this world often depend on the ignorance and naivete of others in order to accomplish their dirty deeds.

I see that tachyon has been pressured into removing the code. I wish he would restore it. I don't see that there is any need for censorship of anything put in this forum that was part of an honest attempt to discuss a Perl issue.