On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:48:13AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
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> * Auto declare undeclared variables
> * PHP, Ruby
> * Typo protection out the window
* Perl (unless you enable 'use strict "vars"', and don't fully qualify
your vars; no such protection possible on subs if you use parentheses,
and no protection at all on method names)
> * Terminate statement on newline
> * Ruby, Javascript, Kurila
* Python, shell
> * Arrays are just hashes with numbered keys
> * (Maybe not such a bad idea)
That would be: * AWK
> * Significant whitespace
> * Python
> * Oh god why Kurila
> * YAML does it right
> * So does Ruby
* Perl6
* Perl (when using heuristics)
> * Objects are just magic hashes
> * Perl
In practice, but not enforced by the language.
* Objects are just magical references, with no build in support to keep state
* Perl
> * Lists count from 0
> * Everybody does it
> * Everybody's wrong
> * See also "let's just paste what C does"
* Let's make where to count from a switch -- globally
* Perl (till it got removed from the language)
> * Let's compare case-insensitively by default
> * Powershell, MySQL
* But be not consistent about this default
* MySQL
> * A typed language with no way to define new types
> * SQL
> * No namespaces
> * Lua, Javascript
* AWK, C, SQL, Pascal, shell, BASIC, ...
> * Use the same function for two totally different things.
> * eval BLOCK; eval STRING
> * select FILEHANDLE; select BITS, BITS, BITS, TIMEOUT
* do STRING; do BLOCK; do BLOCK (while|until) CONDITION
> * We'll add threads later.
> * Perl
> * We'll add Unicode later.
> * Perl (FULL RECOVERY!)
* We'll add objects later.
* Perl
Abigail
