the life cycle of every programming language is like that trope where someone is fiddling with a priceless antique and then it breaks in their hands and they frantically try to put it back together and hope nobody will notice

except imagine that goes on for multiple years and parts keep breaking off so they start adding superglue and duct tape until the whole thing is more duct tape than priceless artifact and also some pieces roll away, never to be seen again

@kasdeya C++

@kasdeya programming language of theseus ;p
is it still perl 5 if it’s been changed for 20 years?

@kasdeya my goto hasn’t been seen in decades