When working with databases there are several solutions on CPAN that deal with Object Oriented access to database tables that either avoid completely or minimize the use of SQL. Unfortunately most of these modules have a rather large learning curve, not necessarily the module itself, but all the precursors to it.more..
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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