Idiotic Perl

Table of contents

Idiotic Perl
What this talk isn't about
What this talk is about
Who they are
The Script Kiddy's Assumption
Learning Perl
Ask a friend
One-Eyed Kings
Look on the web
Buy a book
More about books
Standard Perl book rant
Typical bad advice
Broken CGI parser
Broken CGI parser - problems
More bad advice
More bad code
Recognising bad code
Why help script kiddies
Helping script kiddies
FInding script kiddies
Getting closer to the root problem
Better role models
Conclusions

Dave Cross
dave@mag-sol.com
http://www.mag-sol.com/