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Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

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Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

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Post by bdfh42 »

You missed the worst one in the world - Mumps (or M).

Terrible language that produces (seemingly automatically) terrible software. It also rots the brains of those that are forced to use it.

All of those listed have their charms - seems hard to dislike them in the main.

Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

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Post by sp332 »

I use Perl a lot, but I have a problem with it. And it's not for the usual reasons. I dislike Perl because it amplifies how much I dislike working with other people's code. In something that constrains expression like C, it's easy to read most people's code. And in more expressive languages like Python, I at least feel like we're communicating. But to read someone else's Perl code, you have to get inside their heads! It's like you're not even speaking the same language.

Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

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Post by sp332 »

bdfh42 wrote: post #11

You missed the worst one in the world - Mumps (or M). Terrible language that produces (seemingly automatically) terrible software. It also rots the brains of those that are forced to use it. All of those listed have their charms - seems hard to dislike them in the main.

thedailywtf.com usually posts horrible code bases that developed gradually over time. But their collection of MUMPS horror stories has convinced me that any project in MUMPS is already doomed. http://thedailywtf.com/gsearchresults.aspx?cx=00708007008730...

Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

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Post by mgkimsal »

asto wrote: post #10
itsmequinn wrote: post #5

The more common a language is, the more hearts it's gonna break along the way. PHP all the way baby.

Why so little hate for C then?

because few people develop in C compared to the number of people that use the end product of C programs.

Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

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Post by jrockway »

sp332 wrote: post #12

I use Perl a lot, but I have a problem with it. And it's not for the usual reasons. I dislike Perl because it amplifies how much I dislike working with other people's code. In something that constrains expression like C, it's easy to read most people's code. And in more expressive languages like Python, I at least feel like we're communicating. But to read someone else's Perl code, you have to get inside their heads!…

I haven't noticed this, and I've worked on a lot of other people's Perl.

Like anything, practice makes perfect. Read more Perl and reading Perl will become easier.

Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

#17

Post by BasDirks »

leftnode wrote: post #8

PHP will be at the top of this poll and the other poll of favorite languages.

It won't be at the top of the other poll. It's getting about as much votes there as Haskell. If we consider the size of userbase for both languages, it's pretty clear that it's not liked in this community. With good reason, it's utterly mediocre.

Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

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Post by nkassis »

conradfr wrote: post #14

Javascript because I just don't have the choice to not use it.

You have to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb ;p In all seriousness, I feel that a lot of people(me included) go through a period of hate for javascript until they find that it's actually has some impressive expressiveness using very small set of things.
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