We all have our favorite candidates for worst language ever. I lean to C, but there are other worthy contestants.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of David Crayford <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language) I would have to respectfully disagree. PHP is the worst designed programming language ever and perl isn't much better. Perl excels at one thing, regular expressions. Its syntax is ugly and it suffers from language bloat. I dislike Ruby because it has borrowed many of the "multiple ways to do things" bloat from Perl. As it's Friday we can all have a laugh at the fact that PHP function names were specifically chosen because they were hashed using strlen() :) [1] [1] https://secure-web.cisco.com/1GnDI9B4K4ayPdu-mY7uKBpAHE3k7ktk8k8vMSwnZA5GHwdu-hjoaS49d3tn85wUTPfB4G9dtpSrJ3ooc4iqr8cAEsQ_kCEz3dIOt1wCfjZlnEJrCW-X5Sr40vqRfYhVMhPF48nwds3borNIxCAeNw8UI-NbiJXzW0Y2jgcHn9-112mRS-oXxEhzmwNW2duiMYvF4FgfjiaYvGxGpr3RtxcD1jswd2G3vEVj1Dy8iuSvRoDqeAN_NCRPi9zmnigxWi80TUVfaaTXZwVjBrXBWgd85695K0koyBtgGYCzpgaASidQeeCjdx0G-llRL0GPjvfXUWgcb1eNStjRwqlhpwJZ7Aasl2VI9yq3AxIE94n23jVG6j4-zt_CDi88EqG3C9QVvuuiBPzB0SzXnM-_WOg/https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Fitem%3Fid%3D6919216 On 12/05/2018 1:35 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > Well, if it's "Free-For-All-Friday", I vote for replacing all that crap > with Perl. And I'm sure that PHP and even that snake language have their > fans. Maybe IBM should leave script language design to the wider world. > > REXX is adequate for a lot of things, but the // and % operators just make > me mad. > > sas > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
