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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Gaim festival plugin exploit



On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:02:31PM -0700, Dale Harris said:
> > 
> > This is great, somebody is arguing Perl syntax with the guy who co-wrote the
> > llama book.
> 
> Probably an honest mistake.

The fact that he's arguing with Randal is not the problem, Randal makes
mistakes too.  The fact that he's arguing what the Perl interpreter does
without looking at the source code is the problem.  The fact that he's
arguing that way to Randal is just icing on the cake, right up there
with the David Korn / Microsoft story almost.  Almost; Randal is Just
Another Perl Hacker, he didn't write the code in question.



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