alt Hacker NewsC++ is not unique in having historic spec mistakes but it has by far the most of them which are still relevant today of all languages I have used. Maybe Perl or PHP come a bit close, but I doubt it.
C++ is not unique in having historic spec mistakes but it has by far the most of them which are still relevant today of all languages I have used. Maybe Perl or PHP come a bit close, but I doubt it.
Perl hasn't evolved in a while but PHP is definitely full of historic mistakes, dating all the way back to the first versions using strlen as a hash for function name lookup.