Language wars, distilled
22nd October 2003
A snippet from Every Language War Ever:
I2: A programmer can write unmaintainable code in any language. Let’s compare a carefully prepared code snippet from MFL with a horrifically bad snippet from YFL written by a drunken monkey.
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