WordPress made IE look like it was on top of security.

I don't like PHP at all, but judging the language by one nightmare application is unfair. Yes, PHP might make it harder than necessary to write safe code, but there are worse offenders, like assembler or Hunchback-Gollum-Salvatore.

Looking at perl, let's not forget Matt's Script Archive, which is a good example for bad Perl code. And while we are at it: strict is off by default. warnings are off by default. Taint mode is off by default except when running on Unix and real and effective user and/or group ID differ. Warnings and strict are off by default even then.

And don't make me start complaining about the documentation of Exporter (1, 2) or CGI (1).

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

In reply to Re^9: Google considers Perl a useful skill by afoken
in thread Google considers Perl a useful skill by reisinge

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