Ask me again in a few weeks! Whatever is broken in the technical ecosystem I’m using at the time will come to mind first. Right now, I’m doing a lot of JavaScript. The language itself is bad enough, but when you look at the big picture, it’s a disaster. * Issues in the language itself are well-known. You may not agree with all the criticisms of the language, but you have to agree with some. * The dev environment is something out of the movie Brazil: a curious mix of technologies and practices that seem intended mostly to annoy everyone involved and can only have evolved because no sane person would ever design it this way. * The lack of a standard library leads to NPM and frameworks that change every six minutes and it’s a cesspool. I’d go on, but focusing on this is starting my day off the wrong way!

If you have to ask.... JohnnyCee

MS making a decision based on the presence or absence of a battery (or whatever factor Win10 uses to decide what is a “laptop”) is wrong. Choosing to use a laptop like a desktop or even server should be left to the admin/user, not to Win10 updates, and user config choices should not be changed. If MS introduces some new setting and needs to choose an initial value, and bases that choice on what it thinks the machine’s role is, that’s not ideal, but understandable. JohnnyCee

I’m “curious” why you “quoted” those “words” in your “post”. JohnnyCee

Yes, I remember some SPL. OK, very little. TOS? Was that a register that held a pointer to the top of the stack? I also remember programming HP "smart terminals" with escape sequences. For the more powerful terminals, one could draw polygons with escape sequences and thus produce various charts and other diagrams.

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They shouldn't have to figure it out. We aren't coding on punch cards where short variable names help programmer efficiency. Also, for most projects, triply-nested loops are a code smell and the method should be refactored.

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