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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 #23

VBScript is the most awful language I've ever used. Thankfully I've forgotten most of the pain it caused me.

Haha, why the hate?

I use VBScript almost daily because I support an old proprietary system that offers 3 choices for business logic scripting (VBScript is actually the best of the three).

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

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post #4

The programming languages that would make me the most sad/angry/annoyed I don't use , so it's difficult to make a choice. I suppose I'll have to go with Javascript because it's the de facto 'Web language' which people use to force me to evaluate arbitrary code whenever I want to read anything on the Web. Even with a sandbox that seems a terrible idea. If we're talking about programming languages I hate but still use…

pylint catches most such common errors.

Editra with the PyStudio plugin has become my favorite development environment. It runs pylint every time you save a file and highlights lines with errors.

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post #35

Objective-C. The syntax of this language is hideous. In most cases with languages like C#/Java/Python/Ruby etc. even if you don't know them you can understand a few things by looking at the code. Every-time I look at Objective-C code it hurts my eyes. What a convoluted piece of crap.

I'd encourage you to play around with Obj-C a little more before writing it off. It's actually a pretty simple, compact and concise language once you dig into it. Apple's APIs, on the other hand... :facepalm:

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

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post #34

Easily Visual Basic for me. My first exposure academically to a programming language was Visual Basic. This was what they "force-taught" at school. I already had experience with Java/PHP/C, and just wreethed inside with disgust at the rationale for learning Visual Basic. It was a horrible experience that was forced upon me by my school's teacher. (I was about 16-17 at the time I think). As a form of silent defiance,…

my first academically forced language was Java and now I hate java the most. I wonder if more people hate the first language they got taught.

I imagine it varies considerably based on the teacher and other circumstances.

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

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Easily C# and Java, I don't think the virtual machine adds anything other than another abstraction layer to get in the way. Just because code is native doesn't mean you can't have all sorts of built in bounds checking to ensure safety, but when you're in a VM, taking off the training wheels when you need to actually make shit fast is such a pain.

I especially don't understand the point of a VM like the CLR that only runs on one platform. It's fucking retarded.

On top of that, after having worked in an "enterprise C#" project for an unfortunate year, the kind of person who thinks C# is a really neat idea just doesn't get along with my style of programming.

I had to reiterate constantly "Do the simplest thing that will work". And they would get pissed at me whenever I inserted something at the wrong layer of their pointless abstraction hierarchy. Delegates, XML, and design patterns abstracting ONE thing where everywhere. It was fucking horrible and it took the team forever to get anything done.

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

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Easily Visual Basic for me. My first exposure academically to a programming language was Visual Basic. This was what they "force-taught" at school. I already had experience with Java/PHP/C, and just wreethed inside with disgust at the rationale for learning Visual Basic. It was a horrible experience that was forced upon me by my school's teacher. (I was about 16-17 at the time I think). As a form of silent defiance,…

Had a similar experience when learning languages at the school I went too. There tehy started out with Perl (ya I dont' know why either), then VB6, and then ended with Java. It's probably the only time I've ever looked at Perl or java so fondly, and the VB6 experience was so bad it tainted my opinion of the .NET platform for years afterwards.

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

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post #34

Easily Visual Basic for me. My first exposure academically to a programming language was Visual Basic. This was what they "force-taught" at school. I already had experience with Java/PHP/C, and just wreethed inside with disgust at the rationale for learning Visual Basic. It was a horrible experience that was forced upon me by my school's teacher. (I was about 16-17 at the time I think). As a form of silent defiance,…

my first academically forced language was Java and now I hate java the most. I wonder if more people hate the first language they got taught.

My first academic (and non academic in fact) language are C... and I still find it nice ! And for the short exposure of Java, I find it distastefull with lot of cruft. Especially since I've met Common Lisp and Haskell...
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