Re:The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [pdf]
by eCa on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @01:13PM
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My main problem with the talk is not that you make fun of Perl (every langauge is easy to make fun of), but that you don't seem to have more than a superficial grasp of Perl. No one that doesn't understand a language should make recommendations as to its use.
A couple of examples:
* "You need to backslash the variable" (near-quote) - no, you need to pass the array as a reference (which can be done in several ways).
* Anyone expecting my $var = scalar @array; to return anything but the number of items in @array hasn't spent much time writing/reading Perl.
* "Most, if not all, Perl web apps use CGI.pm" - Not in a world of Mojolicious [1], Dancer [2], Catalyst [3] and others. You should check them out.
A couple of examples:
* "You need to backslash the variable" (near-quote) - no, you need to pass the array as a reference (which can be done in several ways).
* Anyone expecting my $var = scalar @array; to return anything but the number of items in @array hasn't spent much time writing/reading Perl.
* "Most, if not all, Perl web apps use CGI.pm" - Not in a world of Mojolicious [1], Dancer [2], Catalyst [3] and others. You should check them out.
[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious
[2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2
[3] https://metacpan.org/release/Catalyst-Runtime