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Quite a few articles by Joel Spolsky but missing what I believe to be his most important, Things You Should never Do, Part I. [0]

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

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Nowadays we don’t just rewrite from scratch - we create entirely new languages to rewrite IN.

Actually Joel did that too! Some visual-basic inspired language if I recall correctly.

IIRC he did that to support something that wasn't otherwise possible at the time, having the same code base run in ASP and PHP (i.e. Windows and Linux).

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