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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?

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Post by UnfalseDesign »

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…

Also, in most cases, is it the actual programming language we hate or is it the code we've seen written by people who had no concept of the language that we hate?

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

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Post by leokun »

joeblau wrote: post #5

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

It's near unreadable. It's optimizing the wrong things, prettiness (I don't think it's very pretty at all) and keystroke counts, vs readability, fewer errors and maintainability.

It also bugs the fuck out of me that CoffeeScript projects frequently end up being given a *.js extension in the name and how often people who want nothing in the world to do with CoffeeScript, people like me, end up having to deal with it for some reason. Like I don't like ada, and I never have to look at it. ada never ends up in my editor or on a github page I'm looking at, but frequently someone puts CoffeeScript somewhere where someone was expecting JavaScript, like a StackOverflow answer, or a package for Meteor, or something. If CoffeeScript stayed out of my life, and I out of it, I would probably hate it a lot less.

It's not that it's transpiled. I mean that isn't a great thing, but for example I like the idea of Dart and even TypeScript. But CoffeeScript? No thanks.

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

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Post by gesman »

Would be better to have some sort of commented vote, in other words: vote and explain why.

For me - I dislike interpreted languages no matter how cute their syntax looks like. They usually offer quickest idea-to-deployment times for the price of shittiest overall performance.

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

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Post by debacle »

simias wrote: post #20
atwebb wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You have no idea what you're talking about. XXX is terrible. The new release of YYY has solved a lot of the problems that most people complain about.

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

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Post by wting »

adolfojp wrote: post #25

This poll should be more specific with Visual Basic. There are a few different languages that share the name VB. VBA VB.NET VB6 VBScript

I can also break out Lisp into Arc, SBCL, Emacs, Chicken, Racket but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Also historically VBasic has not garnered many responses thus the catch all.

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

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Post by simias »

redman25 wrote: post #29
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…

Just curious, why are people bashing Actionscript? The language itself is based on Javascript and Javascript isn't getting so much hate. I know everyone hates Flash now... maybe I just still have a soft spot in my heart for programming Flash-based games back in the day.

1/ Because it's at the top of the list and people are more likely to cast a vote

2/ Because most people (myself included) don't know actionscript but think Actionscript == Flash and downvote based on that.

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