[kluck]

I watched the video some time ago and what bothers me is that the author pretends to have hacked Perl while in fact he just found that some people are using a commonly used Perl module (DBI) the wrong way whereas the right way is well documented. A similar thing would be to blame PHP for allowing SQL injections through unescaped user input: I am sure it happens a lot, but who would blame PHP.

[ibn-alfatal]

Actually, he breaks examples from the manual. I think his point was that programmers inherently write exploitable Perl code as they assume certain types are secure.

[floatboth]

The types point is actually meh. The real hilarious part is the combination of the ARGV <> "feature" and the open("...|") "feature". What. The. Fuck.

[randallsquared]

Until recently, blaming PHP was the popular approach. :)

[baldfat]

Well, every time I meet someone and they say they use PHP for their living my inter monologue is "Don't be a jerk and don't bash PHP, its a fine choice." I usually have to make sure I don't talk with them long and move along. I am a jerk either way.

[noir_lord]

Shrugs, it pays the bills and has improved radically since 4 and even 5.

It wouldn't be my first choice but there is plenty of reasonable paying work around.