One of the worst examples I've seen is the functional programming paradigm being crowbarred out of PHP .. why.
Most likely related to the Innter-platform effect: ...the tendency of software architects to create a system so customizable as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development platform they are using.
Hey bill - looks like you've been hellbanned. Something that you said on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213223 ticked someone off. Maybe talk to info@ycombinator.com and get it sorted out.
Most likely related to the Innter-platform effect: ...the tendency of software architects to create a system so customizable as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development platform they are using.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
One of the classic PHP examples being the Smarty templating system:
Smarty has been criticized for replicating features that PHP does natively very well, which leads to inefficiency:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarty