On Wednesday, 30 December 2009 at 14:32:01 UTC, merlin wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ai9uc/whats_cs_biggest_mistake/
That's a big one. I don't know if it's the biggest, there are
so many to choose from:
*) lack of standard bool type (later fixed)
*) lack of guaranteed length integer types (later fixed)
*) lack of string type and broken standard library string
handling (not fixed)
*) obviously wrong type declaration (int v[] not int[] v)
I agree with your previous point but your type declaration syntax
is still awful IMHO declaring int[Y][X] and then using [x][y]..
I don't like reading type declaration right-to-left and then
normal code left-to-right..
*) grammar not context free (so close, yet so far...)
*) lousy exception handling implementation
You forgot no sane integer overflow behaviour, undefined program
on overflow isn't a good default behaviour, it should be only a
possible optimisation.
Same with array indexing.
renoX
