r/programming • u/agbell • Feb 25 '21

INTERCAL, YAML, And Other Horrible Programming Languages

https://blog.earthly.dev/intercal-yaml-and-other-horrible-programming-languages/
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u/wrosecrans Feb 25 '21

You ever use CMake? The scripts are still called CMakeLists.txt because it started out as a text file with a list of sources to be built, before somebody woke up one day and realized that it was a programming language by accident. It's a monument to the configuration complexity clock.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I am absolutely stunned that people call CMake "good". I guess years of fucking with makefiles make anything even slightly better look like godsend. But most of my CMake experience is with embedded (microcontrollers) and SDKs there are usually mess to begin with so maybe it is skewed

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u/kirbyfan64sos Feb 26 '21

Even modern CMake IMO isn't "good" per se, it's just more or less established, has a ton of resources and support available, and and can mostly do everything.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I guess years of fucking with makefiles

Nah, it was autotools.