Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 03:35:22AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote: > >>M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> >>>I wonder if there's anything -- an OS, a language, an editor, a >>>programming philosophy -- for which we could get *everyone* on this list >>>to say, "<xxx> sucks!" >> >>MSDOS, COBOL, notepad, static typing? > > > I take it you missed the earlier discussion re: static typing, in which > some concluded it isn't all bad. I had a hard time filling in the last part, so I put that partly for troll value. I couldn't think of any paradigm that came before "structured programming." GOTOful programming? Unstructured programming? Hal