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Bad languages have no place in a modern OS

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-01 3:07

In a generally well-appreciated move, packagers of the most widely used GNU operating system decided to remove support for PHP, arguing that it is ``a rotten language whose use should not be encouraged.''

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380731

Which other languages do you think we should remove from now on?
I think we should start with Perl.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-01 19:07

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The biggest mistake that Sepples makes is tying itself to backward compatibility with the entire history of See *AND* Sepples. If it divorced See and made better design decisions, it could actually be a decent language.

Similarly, they could simply revise the entire language in the next standard and force a compatibility compilation mode for previous code that would need to be updated to use the new standard. This approach allows code to continue working as it used to while making important design decisions. In this way, new code gets written in the new standard.

These two things combined would easily turn Sepples from a clusterfuck into a serious contender for a good language.

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