[Phoenix-pm] I don't buy it

[Scott Walters]

Matt Wright wrote formmail.pl which, though it was done in bad style, is
famous for having the highest density of vulnerabilities per line in any
program known to man.  It single handled made Perl the largest spam relay
right behend open Sendmail servers for a solid 7 years running.  Matt
Wright writes bad code.  My references to people who learned to code by
imitating him implied they had far more than style or preference wrong
with their code -- their code is bad.  As I said, usually people who
write &func aren't old Perl 4 programmers but are people who learned from
the wretched code floating around -- the most common of which is Matt's.

-scott

On  0, "Anthony R. Nemmer" <intertwingled at qwest.net> wrote:
> I don't buy the "Matt Wright" argument or whoever it is.  I think people 
> can write perfectly good code in Perl 5 and use the & when calling 
> subroutines.  You just need to be careful, per perlsub, in how you use 
> &.  It's been my experience that prototypes are truly a hack, and that 
> they are not used that often.  Again, this all may change with Perl 6, 
> but when will Perl 6 be released?  It's probably years away.  Personally 
> I think sigils are one of the things that makes Perl Perl, and that 
> typeglobs are pretty cool.
> 
> Tony
> 
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> 
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