On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:06:28AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote: > > The only other instance I can think of is... damn I can't remember the name. > > It's the one that makes URLs like /foo/bar/123,3598,235.html. You write in > > Java and everything, even the templates, is stored in Oracle. > Vignette StoryServer? > I had a bit of a go with that... back when the language was Tcl, not Java. > Fun times. Especially counting the backslashes. Do we need four here? > Five? Seven?
No, IIRC it was always a power of two. > It was not unheard of to need ungodly numbers of backslashes in various > places. I was told by their support people to "keep adding slashed until it works", the number of slashes required being a function of how deeply nested your code was. Note that you couldn't keep a standard library of functions and use the same function at different nesting levels. Vignette really were a comedy company. Storyserver was supposed to be a content management system, but when I used it it couldn't handle binary file uploads - so you couldn't use it to upload images. Their "solution" to this was to send us some C source which was "untested, because we don't have a compiler in the UK". -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist THIS IS THE LANGUAGE POLICE PUT DOWN YOUR THESAURUS STEP AWAY FROM THE CLICHE
