[Gllug] Perl Question - Spam Filter for NMS Form Mail

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Fri Feb 13 18:13:13 UTC 2009


On 13 Feb 2009, at 17:34, James Laver wrote:
[...]
> Noone is going to argue there's a lot of crap perl out there much as  
> noone
> is going to argue there's a lot of crap php and python out there. Crap
> perl just happens to look worse than crap python to the people who  
> don't
> program it particularly well.

The basic difference between Crap Python and Crap Perl is that Python  
imposes a particular coding style, so when looking at random code,  
there are fewer stylistic issues that warns of potential Crapness.

if("$code_style"=="Perl4") {
& is_crap('Have you considered PHP instead?\n');
}

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