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Ugh indeed (Score:1)

by WebDragon (1204)

It's no wonder people complain about messy looking perl when stuff like this keeps resurfacing as 'examples'.

Every CGI I write uses taint-mode, warnings, strict, and CGI.pm.

I can't tell you how many times I've had people call me to do maintenance on an old script to add some small additional functionality and I've had to either convince them that I should rewrite the entire thing from scratch, or turn them down outright since I won't add my name to the list of people responsible for it breaking or being c
- Re:Ugh indeed (Score:2)
  
  by Ovid (2709) on 2004.03.22 15:19 (#29534) Homepage Journal
  
  I have a friend who's doing a complete rewrite of Webmin using strict, automatic tests, modules, etc. I believe he wants to sell it as a commercial product, though.
  
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  - Re:Ugh indeed (Score:1)
    
    by WebDragon (1204)
    
    Damn! why didn't I think of that? :o)

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