> The comment about developers making work for themselves is also spot on. I answer a lot of programming questions, and the questions are always asked because t

> The comment about developers making work for themselves is also spot on. I answer a lot of programming questions, and the questions are always asked because the programmer has reached the end of a twisty maze of his own creation. Turn around, walk, spin around, and try again. You'll find a better solution. This deserves to be repeated a thousand times. How many times bad code and bad ideas stick around simply because those that came up with them can't even imagine that they could do without them. I have run into this many times with people that try Plan 9, 'where is my pet unix "feature"?!?', guess what? It was not a 'feature' and it causes untold pain, and that is why it is not in Plan 9. Just last week somebody was in the Go mailinglist asking why there is no preprocessor! sigh