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> To me all weirdness IS poor design. Weirdness is subjective. If you look at lisp for the first time coming from other languages it will be weird. PHP had gl
by nkozyra 5y ago
> To me all weirdness IS poor design.
Weirdness is subjective. If you look at lisp for the first time coming from other languages it will be weird.
PHP had glaring issues for years, but they started to clean up the language around 7.x.
JavaScript was effectively a toy but grew up in a hurry when Node pushed ecmascript forward and into a well paced release pattern.