On 2012.5.14 3:17 AM, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2012-05-14, at 05:03, Peter Corlett wrote: >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:35:39PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: >> [...] >>> Like "*x" for indirection. Even Dennis agrees that was a mistake. He said >>> that by the time he noticed it there were three sites using "C" so they >>> thought it was probably too late to fix it. > >> I heard the "there were three sites using it" story about why the precedence >> of && and || are wrong. Trust Perl to come up with a rather special way of >> fixing *that* one. > > Thinking back, I may be mixing up another "three sites" story with the > conversation I had with him, but he did mention some small number of > installations by today's standards. Or he could have told that story > so many times that he automatically used that same number.
I've heard that same story but about the hard tab in make. Smells like an urban legend... or proof that programmers care too much about backwards compatibility. -- Stabbing you in the face for your own good.
