7 historical decisions that continue to pain programmers

[Alejandro Tejada]

http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/143194/ouch-7-historical-decisions-continue-pain-programmers-408245

1) Unix hides dot files
2) JavaScript uses + for string concatenation
3) Microsoft chooses backslash as path delimiter
4) Python uses indentation to denote blocks 
5) Tony Hoare invents the null reference
6) JavaScript implements semicolon insertion
7) How to represent dates






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