
12 May
2016
12 May
'16
7:48 p.m.
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Jon Fairbairn
The one this violates is “never make language design decisions to work around deficiencies in tools” The problem is that diff does its work in ignorance of the syntax and consequently produces poor results.
I think that this is an excellent principle that we should uphold.