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Ask HN: Examples of egregious “Wrong tool for the job” programming?

3 pointsby cdvonstinkpotalmost 8 years ago
After seeing the recent Nyancat drawing in the BGP logs, I got to wondering what kind of apps have been written, against all odds, in a totally wrong language than is suitable for their function? Like a BGP log is for graphic design.

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itamarstalmost 8 years ago
You can use airline fare rules to encode a turing machine: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.demarcken.org&#x2F;carl&#x2F;papers&#x2F;ITA-software-travel-complexity&#x2F;img35.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.demarcken.org&#x2F;carl&#x2F;papers&#x2F;ITA-software-travel-com...</a>