Well, "rolling your own programming language" wasn't mentioned in this fail list, but I feel it could have been, since build systems and vcs are mentioned. Henc

Well, "rolling your own programming language" wasn't mentioned in this fail list, but I feel it could have been, since build systems and vcs are mentioned. Hence the fail points for Emacs. Now, it can also yield win points for using an especially well suited programming language. (Bye the way, I love Emacs)