whose wrote:
Shouldn't it? Why? To support this tricks several decades more? To gain compatibility to broken software and discourage new developments in this direction?
Very good, as for a developer view.
But at the end of the day, isn't it how the end user experiences and appreciates the result what really matters?
The purpose of the whole endeavour?
So what does the end user get?
1. a working application + dirty code
or
2. a crashing application + clean code + possibly some unperceivable performance gain?
Frankly, I see no way the option 2. could win, unless this is strictly a development system and "end users" are actually developers.
