Perl-preprocessed C in the 21st Century

Posted Jan 15, 2026 15:05 UTC (Thu) by willy (subscriber, #9762)
In reply to: Perl-preprocessed C in the 21st Century by kleptog
Parent article: The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

I was reminded of https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_inner-platform_effect -- when you're layering your own programming language on top of the real programming language, you're definitely doing it wrongly.