On Friday, July 6, 2012 9:58:10 AM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > (Sadly, when I say "we" I mean > collectively. Many language designers, and programmers, don't have the > foggiest clue as to what makes a good clean design. Hence C++ and PHP.)
I'm not going to defend C++, but to be fair, a major driver of the design is that it had to be plug-compatible with C. From that you're stuck with the preprocessor and pointers. Much goes downhill when you start from there. PHP, yeah, that's just charlie-foxtrot from start to finish. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
