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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?
#142I chose PHP because it's gathers everything I hate about any language in one spot. * It has everything including the kitchen sink but nothing in the decor matches. There is no unifying principle to help you grok the language * The Community is all about quick hacky fixes to already broken code and this approach seems to flow from the core developers out. * It's not type safe, not even at runtime. I don't know if I ev…
I think PHP's main problem on websites like these is that it's too mainstream of a language. It's like asking someone who's an avid fan of world cinema about the latest Michael Bay film.
I'm not that interested in programming, so I think it's a great language. All those years back when first learning to use it, I remember going through a book and being so happy that it did practically everything itself.
Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
#143I couldn't find any mention of (pre-PowerShell) MS batch (CMD.EXE, COMMAND.COM) language. At the shop I work at, WinXP is still the standard platform, and .BAT the first line scripting language. It's nauseating; the threshold at which I typically start looking to rewrite .BAT scripts in languages not intrinsic to the platform is about 3 lines of code. Unfortunately, if you want to write programs that modify the environment of the CMD shell from which they were invoked, .BAT scripting is unavoidable.
Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
#144I chose PHP because it's gathers everything I hate about any language in one spot. * It has everything including the kitchen sink but nothing in the decor matches. There is no unifying principle to help you grok the language * The Community is all about quick hacky fixes to already broken code and this approach seems to flow from the core developers out. * It's not type safe, not even at runtime. I don't know if I ev…
What do you mean by type safety? Are all dynamically typed languages type unsafe by your definition?
If the language can tell me when it executes the code that the type is wrong then I consider that type safe. Less usefully type safe than at compile time but safe nonetheless.
If the language treats a string as a number in some cases without an error then that is most definitely not type safe.
Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
#145I chose PHP because it's gathers everything I hate about any language in one spot. * It has everything including the kitchen sink but nothing in the decor matches. There is no unifying principle to help you grok the language * The Community is all about quick hacky fixes to already broken code and this approach seems to flow from the core developers out. * It's not type safe, not even at runtime. I don't know if I ev…
I think PHP's main problem on websites like these is that it's too mainstream of a language. It's like asking someone who's an avid fan of world cinema about the latest Michael Bay film. I'm not that interested in programming, so I think it's a great language. All those years back when first learning to use it, I remember going through a book and being so happy that it did practically everything itself.
Your second statements communicates to me that you like it because it's a toy language. It may be useful for just getting something small done and getting started but for someone who looks at programming as an enjoyable craft php loses it's shine. Especially once you've been exposed to other languages that highlight how much better it could be.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish there was some way to vote for that abomination in the poll. Personally, writing Java/Html hybrid templates that are served as html documents and then further manipulated by dynamically altering the DOM in javascript on the client is the stupidest programming style I can imagine.
Out of curiosity, what is your favored alternative for web applications? Server-side rendering of complete pages? Client-side manipulation of pure HTML?
I don't know of a good alternative. Thus my grumpiness.
Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
#147"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup
But then there's python.
I do not know why someone has downvoted zxy. He/she has the point: python is used by many but few dislike it. Python is a third kind: the ones people like. Bjarne was looking for excuses for his bad C++.
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#148Objective-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.
Objective C is the 6th C-like language I've used professionally. It took a bit of getting used to, but now that I know the overall design goals, and how everything's implemented under the hood, I find it to be quite an elegant language. Properly designed APIs are a joy to use in Objective C since it's very easy to describe your intent.
Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
#149Objective-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.
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Re: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
#150Where's Matlab? That language has caused me untold anguish.