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domm
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Just in case you like to know, I'm currently full-time father of 2 kids, half-time Perl hacker, sort-of DJ, bicyclist, no longer dreadlocked and 33 years old
(email not shown publicly)
http://domm.plix.at/
Just in case you like to know, I'm currently full-time father of 2 kids, half-time Perl hacker, sort-of DJ, bicyclist, no longer dreadlocked and 33 years old
I'm also head of Vienna.pm [pm.org], maintainer of the CPANTS [perl.org] project, member of the TPF Grants Commitee [perlfoundation.org] and the YAPC Europe Foundation [yapceurope.org].
I've got stuff on CPAN [cpan.org], held various talks [domm.plix.at] and organised YAPC::Europe 2007 in Vienna [yapceurope.org].
Friday December 16, 2005
08:56 AM
"fun" job
Somebody approached me to rescue a very late project. It should be done today, I got on board yesterday...
But only today I took a first real look at the code. It features:
- self written CGI param parser
- self written templating system
- self written DB (mini) abstraction
- one very big if-elsif-block as a "dispatcher"
- it's plain CGI
- aprox. 30 different templates, all with the same header stuff inlined (but some digging in the code revealed some include-like functionality)
- the templating system only recognises commands if they begin in the first column of the line
- and probably some more niceties
The project is low budget and on a thight schedule, so I'll fight my urge to rewrite everything and stick with this mid-90s retro code. At least they use strict (if only 'vars')...
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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