Ok, the recent wave of spam is forcing the custodians of perlmonks to work overtime and I'm sure they have some ideas about stemming it at the root.
The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development.
I just want to request that it become hard to get an account initially and that posting be just as easy as it is now, with no CAPTCHA or other tighter security on the posting process itself.
Why? because I just wrote an emacs interface that makes it easy to post to perlmonks from Emacs and it will fail horribly if the authentication requirements for posting are raised to more than just a saved cookie.
The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development.
-- Terence Parr, "Enforcing Strict Model View Separation in Template Engines"
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