> The worst part about features like this are that a few smart people will actually use them (whether because they're powerful features, or just because they fe

> The worst part about features like this are that a few smart people will actually use them (whether because they're powerful features, or just because they feel powerful when using them), and then render their code incomprehensible to the mere mortals who have to support their code in the future. I really don't understand what motivates this kind of petty hostility. It could have been written about any of a thousand language features that didn't exist in assembly and now exist in higher level languages, and it would be just as sad.