At 12:12 PM 07/18/2001 -0400, fliptop wrote:
>
>i may be starting a jihad here, but matt wright's code is generally
>considered poor by the perl community at large, and you would be well
>advised not to use any of it.
Matt Wright's perl scripts = disasters waiting to happen.
IIRC, Matt Wright has the dubious honor of being the only "freeware" perl
author to have a CERT security advisory written up for!
A cursory glance through any of his scripts would convince an intermediate
or even savvy perl beginner that his scripts are just filled with BAD perl
code. Many of his popular scripts like wwwboard don't employ file locking,
which is downright madness when you think about the application the script
is supposed to serve.
I hope for the sake of perl newbies (and the net in general), Matt would
update the code on his site to "sane" perl coding standards. Most of those
scripts are over 5 years old!
Look at that "guestbook" script again. Textbook example of terrible perl
code. Manual parsing of CGI query parameters? Use of global variables and
no "my"'ing of variables? Ack!
For crying out loud, its 19101 now...I can't believe his stuff is STILL as
popular as it was back in 1996.
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