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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.

Posted 22nd October 2003 at 5:40 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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Previously hosted at http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/22/drunkenMonkey