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Agreed but keep in mind the Perl community were black sheep for years because the language is so (admittedly) hairy and ugly oh and also not a "real" programmin
by mapgrep 13y ago
Agreed but keep in mind the Perl community were black sheep for years because the language is so (admittedly) hairy and ugly oh and also not a "real" programming language because it gained adoption when scripting languages still had a stigma. And the community had its own issues; there were sites like "Matt's Script Archive" distributing horridly insecure code (read through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt's_Script_Archive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt's_Script_Archive). But time has a way of changing both communities and how they are seen. Like I said, old is good. Programming communities age like wine. (Which means they improve and improve -- until they peak at which point all bets are off.)
- TylerE 13y agoThat certainly brings back memories... formmail, the early web discussion board (UBB?), etc
- antitrust 13y agoReminds me of Matt's Scripts Archive: http://www.scriptarchive.com/ http://www.scriptarchive.com/ For a long time, it seemed like everyone was using his form mail and web forum scripts.
- marssaxman 13y agoI used formmail.pl! Multiple times! It cured me of any inclination I might have had to actually learn and use Perl.
- chromatic 13y agoSeems like a better lesson to learn would be "Don't use software written by people who've never read an RFC and know nothing about security." That way you could avoid awful software written in any language.