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When I see three layers of weird DSLs for configuring a single app

(Hello, Jetty.)

When everybody and their dog writes a poor OOP critique

When I read a discussion about Scheme fundamentals on the RnRS editors list

When the designers of a bad language decide to add a poorly-understood, "powerful" new feature

When someone shows me their implementation of McCarthy's EVAL

When I listen to someone who knows less about PLs than me

When I hear of a LISP success in industry

When somebody says "it's written in C, so it must be fast"

When I'm beginning to study a new area of CS

When I read a script kiddie's post about PL semantics

When I hear your new PL doesn't have exceptions and requires manual error handling instead

When I see a discussion about scope in CoffeeScript

When I'm trying to read an operational semantics

When somebody uses the word 'natural'

When I can no longer tell whether my implementation is faithful to the semantics or not

When I read a blog post by Robert Harper

When everybody hypes a language that I find crap

When a new language doesn't get lexical scope right

When I heard of Dart's type system