20. Expect the worst - don't always think that the user's input will be nice, clean, and tidy.
21. Always use
die and
warn(sometimes) if the code has a possibility of failing.
22. DO NOT try to reinvent
CGI.pm. It is already good enough as is and should not try to be re-written. Check out
chromatic's homenode and generally(.*?) just look at daily posts on why not to.
I just thought I should point that out.
Almost a Perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian
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