Designing a consistent language is *very* hard

[Nick Sabalausky]

"deadalnix" <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:jngirs$1jlf$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Le 28/04/2012 11:27, Nick Sabalausky a écrit :
>> "Guillaume Chatelet"<chatelet.guillaume at gmail.com>  wrote in message
>> news:vwpzirpppabcgylmvpsx at forum.dlang.org...
>>> Sorry for the noise but I think a few language designer out there might
>>> like this one :
>>> http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
>>>
>>
>> "PHP: a fractal of bad design" is the absolute most perfect summary of 
>> PHP
>> anyone could ever possibly make. It is the world's worst still-living
>> non-joke language, period.
>
> Please note that Rasmus Ledorf stated many time that He « don't know how 
> to design a programming language », « never intended to create a 
> programing language », « don't like programing » and probably the funniest 
> one « don't how to stop it » it being the success of PHP.
>

Ugh. That just makes the whole situation even more pathetic.