Which programming language do you really hate?
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Which programming language do you really hate?
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Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#2Please fix the link. It is a bit disingenuous to link to the subsection fragment for Java when there's stuff above it.
Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#3Matlab. That language is what I was "encouraged" to write the bulk of my thesis in. It's essentially the VB of the scientific community. Such a horrible language with a horrible runtime and an unbelievably limited vector syntax considering that is all it was designed for.
Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#4As expected, hatred is roughly proportional to popularity. Bjarne was right when he said "There are only two kinds of programming language: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."
Actually if we compare the Stack Exchange hatred list against the TIOBE index, then we can correct for the amount of 'expected' hatred (the kind that is proportional with usage)
VBScript: Hated much more than expected
PHP: Hated more than expected
Java: Hated less than expected
Visual Basic: Hated slightly more than expected
ColdFusion: Hated much more than expected
C++: Hated much less than expected
Disclaimer, those are a bunch of vague guesses based on two sources of questionable data.
Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#5Matlab. That language is what I was "encouraged" to write the bulk of my thesis in. It's essentially the VB of the scientific community. Such a horrible language with a horrible runtime and an unbelievably limited vector syntax considering that is all it was designed for.
MATLAB is a language? ;-)
Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#6Best criticism of Python: Any language that has whitespace as tokens needs to die. Xepoch Sep 17 at 17:51
Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#7As expected, hatred is roughly proportional to popularity. Bjarne was right when he said "There are only two kinds of programming language: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." Actually if we compare the Stack Exchange hatred list against the TIOBE index, then we can correct for the amount of 'expected' hatred (the kind that is proportional with usage) VBScript: Hated much more than expected PHP:…
I have two guesses for why C++ garners less hatred than expected:
(1) Lots of people who would have been writing C++ 5-10 years ago have moved over to Java.
(2) Lots of people writing C++ are actually writing C with classes.
Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#8Matlab. That language is what I was "encouraged" to write the bulk of my thesis in. It's essentially the VB of the scientific community. Such a horrible language with a horrible runtime and an unbelievably limited vector syntax considering that is all it was designed for.
I was gonna write something about how matlab isn't really that bad. And then I thought about how it's impossible to do anything with strings, y(0)=1; gives an error, variables from inside a function aren't stored in the workspace even if they are called from the workspace (among other stupid crap with functions), and God help your soul if you ever type the word "classdef" into an m-file. It's a good thing some of the built in functions are really powerful.
Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#9As expected, hatred is roughly proportional to popularity. Bjarne was right when he said "There are only two kinds of programming language: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." Actually if we compare the Stack Exchange hatred list against the TIOBE index, then we can correct for the amount of 'expected' hatred (the kind that is proportional with usage) VBScript: Hated much more than expected PHP:…
Oddly, c# isn't hated at all...
Re: Which programming language do you really hate?
#10Any language that is stuck in a non-text, non-diff-compatible, or where the program is combined in the same binary file with data.
Most commonly, this is found in the files generated by desktop database products such as MS Access, Filemaker, etc.
It's a program maintenance nightmare.