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> terrible, unmaintainable Perl scripts

Lucky you. At a previous workplace I had to cater with actual binaries produced from C source code that contained strings that contained script tags that contained JS code that generated HTML. I’ll let you sink that in and process the escaping.

Apparently it never occurred to some people that they could read those from disk, even from the C program.



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