Re: Don't blindly recommend code

[Elias]

Other nodes on PM have warned against the blind use of Matt’s script archive. However, it is difficult for both beginners and people pressed for time to evaluate the trustworthiness of a cgi program. Has anyone, on his homenode or elsewhere, made a list of safe and well crafted scripts available in the multitude of archives on the net? Or is the concensus here that we should trust our own crafts section more than any other resource, and base our trust on the number of votes a given script has received?

Edited 2001-03-26 by Ovid

[jeffa]

The beauty of the scripts and snippets that are posted here at the Monastery is the comments below them. If someone posts bad code, it will be pointed out very quickly. And if you see a snippet with no comments, feel free the check it out it and comment on it.

However, I feel that the only time you should 'cut and paste' someone else's code into 'your own' is when you know what the consequences will be. And if you don't . . . may Saint Wall have mercy on you soul.

Jeff

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