• my name (unregistered)

    PERL is a Write only Language

  • Hal (unregistered)

    If I had to take a wild arse guess with such little context - pwd = present working directory?

    Generating a random-ish value to create a space for some temp files. A huge code smell for sure but sounds like the whole project is

  • dpm (unregistered)

    799,800 lines to go

  • Hanzito (unregistered)

    Ninetyninethousandht comment.

  • The Dave G (unregistered)

    I'm not sure wtf the wft is. The little, innocuous code-bits, or not using a tool to scan for vulnerabilities.

  • my name is missing (unregistered)

    What requires 800,000 lines of Perl I wonder? It seems more likely to be a WMD than an application.

  • Tinkle (unregistered)

    I found the biggest security vulnerability: 'no one is entirely sure what the production environment is'

  • (nodebb) in reply to my name

    PERL is a Write only Language

    Incorrect. Perl is merely slightly opaque. APL is write-only.

  • (nodebb) in reply to The Dave G

    You don't think that it's a major catastrophe scale WTF to have a production system that includes servers and other resources that nobody knows what they are?

  • Duston (unregistered)

    799,800 lines of code in the file, 799,800 lines of code. What's it about so edit it out, 799,799 lines of code in the file.

  • Zygo (unregistered)

    After years of on-and-off Perl coding, I'm looking at that line of code, and thinking there's probably some way to make that line compile by manipulating the interpreter at runtime...

  • Sole Purpose Of Visit (unregistered)

    From distant memory, I seem to recall that Perl has about five or six different contexts, not merely scalar and list. Then again, Perl being Perl, I may be confused as to what a "context" is, in, er, the context.

    We're probably not supposed to promote commercial products on this site, but in the case of Perl (and PHP) I'm going to do so anyway: Use Komodo. It's damn good at pointing out problems.

    Having said which, I feel Erik's pain. Unless of course he is "Hanzo" Erik, in which case ... karma.

  • Yikes (unregistered)

    It's like one of those home makeover shows .... for a mansion .... or..... a town!

  • Abigail (unregistered)

    $1000001 in Perl is a read-only variable. It's the part of the string which got matched by the 1000001th set of parenthesis of the last successful match. I doubt they have such a regular expression, so they probably meant something else.

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  • (nodebb) in reply to The Dave G

    The same tool that wrote it, or a different one?

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  • (nodebb)

    There is no interpreter, moron.

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  • WhyIsItGlowing? (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    "You don't think that it's a major catastrophe scale WTF to have a production system that includes servers and other resources that nobody knows what they are?"

    No, this just means it must be coming out of another division's budget, therefore it is a huge success and cannot possibly go wrong.

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