This post had a big influence on me back in the day. When I first read it, I think it was discussed here in the context of Go, which was relatively new -- peopl

This post had a big influence on me back in the day. When I first read it, I think it was discussed here in the context of Go, which was relatively new -- people were complaining about its use of capitalization to indicate visibility, its lack of operator overloading, and the tedium of its error handling compared to exceptions. Joel makes a good case for all three of those design choices here.