A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase

Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ... by ectospheno on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:45PM (#41780451)

> Any tool which is old enough will have a thousand ways to do something.

Only because of the strange desire of programmers to never stop. Not every program is a never ending story. Most are short stories their authors bludgeon into a novel.

Programming languages bloat into stupidity for the same reason. Nothing is ever removed. Programmers need editors.

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Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ... by fluoridation on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:01PM (#41780611)

So how do you design a language that accommodates both the people who need a codebase to be stable for decades and the people who want the bleeding edge all the time, backwards compatibility be damned?

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Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ... by the_gorilla on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:03PM (#41780639)

You don't. Any language that tries to do both turns into an unusable abomination like C++. Good languages are stable and the bleeding edge is just the "new thing" and not necessarily better than the old thing.

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Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ... by fluoridation on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:07PM (#41780673)

C++ doesn't try to do that. It aims to remain as backwards compatible as possible, which is what the GP is complaining about.

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