| Your logic is completely broken though. You're looking at projects written back when the only real competitor to Perl was classic ASP (PHP was still in it's infancy) and then saying that Perl as a language is terrible because you're too lazy to look at all the modern frameworks that have been added since then (have you even heard of mod_perl, Mojolicious, Dancer or Catalyst? All of them do away with CGI) Yes, there are some bad Perl programmers, but there are bad programmers in every language. If someone missuses pointers in C/C++, you blame the developer. Or if someone cocks up the whitespacing in Python, you'd blame the developer. Of course the buck stops at the developer - he is the guy writing the code to begin with. Who else are you going to blame if someone writes bad code? Lists aside, ironically Perl has better type safety than many other loosely typed languages due to the lack of operator overloading - thus avoiding the often overlooked triple character operators (eg ===, !==, etc). So while Perl (like any language) does have it's hidden traps, it also has protection against hidden traps that other languages exhibit. However you conveniently overlook this when ranting about how poor Perl's type system is. The problem here is that you clearly have some deep seated prejudice against Perl and it's caused you to create a presentation that's, at best, rude, but realistically it's just down right ignorant flamebait. If you really cared half as much about good programming practices and secure web applications as you make out, then half your presentation would have been explaining how to avoid those pitfalls you demonstrated, instead of smugly shrugging whenever the question was raised. And since you continually explained how "shit" Perl is, you could have also demonstrated the equivalent features in other languages which are safe (the problem here is that examples you'd given would have been bad practice in any programming language - as has been discussed on here already). This is why you're receiving so many negative comments, both from HN, Youtube commenters and even half your peers in the audience that day. Hopefully the next time you decide to give a presentation, you will put your personal feelings aside and can give a more up-to-date, balanced and better researched talk. |