"When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun." (c) Alan Perlis

"A depressive reminder that the world is still not a better place."

Contents

• Bash

• C++

• GCC

• Mailman

• Python

  • jinja2
  • python.org
  • python 3
  • stdlib.re
  • virtualenv

• tar

• Ubuntu PPA

Bash

bash suxx, because:

$ cat test.sh
sh -c "exit 102"
echo $?
echo Done.
$ bash test.sh 
102
Done.
$ echo $?
0

it doesn't fail on errors.

C++

C++ suxx, because

You can not simply override fields from parent class like you do in Python:

class Driver(object):
  name = "Unknown"
  def __init__(self):
    print(self.name)

class SpecificDriver(Driver):
  name = "Specific"
  def __init__(self):
    super(SpecificDriver, self).__init__()

Driver()
SpecificDriver()

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36964242/access-overridden-field-in-constructor-without-templates
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37360302/c-cant-access-child-property-from-parent
• https://gist.github.com/techtonik/ce85e2e5e1773e02f91cb8e1156d049a

GCC

gcc 4.x suxx, because:

$ gcc main.c
$ ls main*
main.c

Mailman

mailman 2.x mailing list software suxx, because

• it doesn't have search button for its archives
• you can't reply to the thread if you're not already subscribed
• you can't subscribe only to threads you're interested in
• if you are not subscribed, there is no guaranteed mail delivery because it is not clear if you address will be added to CC

Python

Jinja 2

• Doesn't provide ability to list all template variables pallets/jinja#174

python.org as a community site

• developers don't care about people who are learning web development (python/pythondotorg#912)
• proprietary owned by PSF (there is no sign that it is open source)
• code is not reusable because of verbose license with no owner
• doesn't credit people who contributed to it (everything links to PSF)
• there is no understanding of ux in development involvement

Python 3

• it suxx, because it managed to ship venv module with all suxx facts from virtualenv chapter below
• it suxx, because for some reason binary data is now math (integers)

line = b'12345'
if line[0] == b'1':
  print('python 2')
else:
  print('python 3')

stdlib.re

$ matches before \n, but not before \r\n. It suxx that docs for $ don't mention that this created problems on Windows stdout processing and files read in text mode (default behaviour, which suxx as well).

virtualenv

virtualenv (python-virtualenv) suxx, because

• you can't just login and logout from the env, you need to activate it
• you can't just refence sctipt in virtualenv - you need platform-aware conditional to choose bin/ on Linux and Scripts\ on Windows

tar

tar.gz, tar.* archive formats suxx for extracting random files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#Random_access

Ubuntu PPA

Ubuntu PPA suxx, because

• you can't just install inkscape from https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable.
• PPA launchpad pages like https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable just don't have a straightforward single visible command needed to the istall the stuff right away (launchpad#1458513)

Competitors

• https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks