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* Custom code = More bugs
* Security issues (command injection, etc)
* Dependency on developers
-* **"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to
- the irrelevant"** *Alan Perlis*
-* **There is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten
- thousand lines of C** *Master Foo*
+* *"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to
+ the irrelevant."
—Alan Perlis*
+* *"There is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten
+ thousand lines of C."
—Master Foo*
### Why not CGI?