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Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

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Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

#15

Post by rimantas »

joeblau wrote: post #5

What is it about CoffeeScript that people don't like?

I guess some just dislike the idea of sugaring Javascript. Others my think that it hides something that can bite your ass, though imho the oppossite is the case. For me personaly after spending some time with CoffeeScript writing plain JS was a displeasure for sure.

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

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Post by atwebb »

simias wrote: post #6

And the award of least significant poll of the week goes to... Seriously, you won't get anything meaningful out of this, people will vote for the language they like and then bash the usual suspects (PHP, actionscript, C++,...). Also they will browse the first 20 entries or so and then get bored and skip to the end. I'm sure the people who "dislike cobol" (7 people at the moment) have intimate knowledge of the languag…

There's going to be the common blabber and hating on the usual suspects but polls like this tend to be good ways to bring up a general topic and let everyone discuss. Maybe it would've been better in a AskHN but at least here we get a list to reference (and for people to get angry at what's missing, people love getting angry). Also, it gives a view of what this specific community in this specific thread feels and adds to the context when reading other threads.

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

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Post by tmikaeld »

simias wrote: post #6

And the award of least significant poll of the week goes to... Seriously, you won't get anything meaningful out of this, people will vote for the language they like and then bash the usual suspects (PHP, actionscript, C++,...). Also they will browse the first 20 entries or so and then get bored and skip to the end. I'm sure the people who "dislike cobol" (7 people at the moment) have intimate knowledge of the languag…

It's quite silly asking such a subjective question, but aren't most polls just that, subjective?

Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

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Post by simias »

atwebb wrote: post #16
simias wrote: post #6

And the award of least significant poll of the week goes to... Seriously, you won't get anything meaningful out of this, people will vote for the language they like and then bash the usual suspects (PHP, actionscript, C++,...). Also they will browse the first 20 entries or so and then get bored and skip to the end. I'm sure the people who "dislike cobol" (7 people at the moment) have intimate knowledge of the languag…

There's going to be the common blabber and hating on the usual suspects but polls like this tend to be good ways to bring up a general topic and let everyone discuss. Maybe it would've been better in a AskHN but at least here we get a list to reference (and for people to get angry at what's missing, people love getting angry). Also, it gives a view of what this specific community in this specific thread feels and add…

I don't think it usually creates interesting discussion. Just a billion of comments with no replies along the line of "XXX is great!" "YYY sucks!".

Everybody talks and nobody listens. It's just pointless popularity contest.

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