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Matt's Script Archive considered harmful (was Re: *ping*)

Sabrina Downard wrote:
> :Very quiet.  Very boring (which is good, in this case).
 
> We had a "y2k bug."  Yep, a very important one.  The date on our main web
> site, generated by a perl script from Matt's Script Archive, rolled over
> to the year 19100.  :-)

Eek!  Avoid "Matt's Script Archive".  There are tons of buggy CGI's in
there.  In fact, at "Yet Another Perl Conference" in June 1999, someone gave
a talk on bad Perl programs, and many of the examples were easily recognized
as Matt's Script Archive stuff.

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