Tim Bray on Ruby (via Lambda The Ultimate) contains a reference to
... COBOL's ALTER, deprecated 40 years ago and now often cited as the worst feature ever to appear in a major programming language.
How bad could this ALTER statement be?
Style is Substance.
Ken Arnold's Style is Substance argues that programming languages should enforce programming style.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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