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by josephg 810 days ago
... The engineering culture which gave us 200kb fragile, semi-autogenerated configure scripts checked in to our repositories. Configure scripts which - as we've just seen - are a great place to hide malicious code.

I can't take this criticism seriously. 200kb of configure script = good, 1000 lines of JSON parser in bash = bad? What?