On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:13:28PM -0400, Numien wrote: > On 13/05/12 01:48 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >The rpmbuild post reminded me of my list of stupid language designer > >tricks. > >This is a file I add to every time I read about some stupid mistake (or > >"brilliant" feature) in a language and think "if I ever write a language I > >am > >remembering not to do THAT!" > > > Also: > * No simple include statement > * Javascript is one of the worst, but this is a far too common one.
Perl used to have this. It was called #include. It's a damned shame that -P got killed off. Removing it was hateful. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Sobol's Law of Telecom Utilities: Telcos are malicious; cablecos are simply clueless.