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“ I realized that anyone running Perl code with the distribution Perl interpreter on Redhat 5.2, Centos 5.2 or Fedora 9 is likely a victim. Yes, even if your code doesn’t use the fancy bless/overload idiom, many CPAN modules do! A google search shows 1500+ modules use the bless/overload idiom and they include some really popular ones […] According to a google trends analysis Redhat, Centos and Fedora make up the majority of linux distributions used in production. All these have a broken perl. How much time and money has been lost because of this? I have a sinking feeling that it is a staggering number. I also have a sinking feeling that many people have moved away from perl to python/ruby/java/C because this bug caused them to assume “perl is slow.” I am hoping this issue will get more visibility because it’s silently killing perl’s reputation and resulting in some very serious wastage of resources.
— Balance Through Extremism (minimally adapted)
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