begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 12:40:03PM -0500: > >From: Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] > >FORTRAN. COBOL. Makefiles. > > > >Probably more. > > Notice that everyone hates Makefiles and Cobol. And Fortran is only > popular in the math set, because a lot of existing libraries are out there.
Well, yes. :) I think that's because they're not sexy and new. > >> Its a flaw in the language's > >> design. Its like writing a language where the = sign means to add > >> the two numbers. > >> > >> Sure, you can do it, but its stupid and will only lead to problems. > > > >Hel-lo C++! > > Yes, but anyone doing that in C++ would be summarily shot by his coworkers. In an ideal world, perhaps. But programmers do equally bizarre things in C++ (overloading left and right shift to do I/O, overloading equals to do reference counting, etc.) and I haven't heard of any lynchings as a result. (I ended up walking through some CORBA code where they were playing games with = -- and it was quite clever and impressive, but I kept on saying to myself 'this will bring me trouble in the long run'.) -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
