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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 Mikeb85 »

These days a small language called Pure has my attention (purelang.bitbucket.org) - it has many of the features of Haskell I like, but is a dynamically typed language that makes use of an interesting functional paradigm (term rewriting calculus!), and is much easier to use than Haskell. It also has a great shell and C/C++ interface (and Emacs and Texmacs integration).

And I always like seeing these kinds of polls because people's 'favourites' depend alot on what they do with the language - Java and C++ are great for writing large apps, systems, etc..., while dynamic languages have much different use cases.

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

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Post by glanotte »

"There are the two kinds of languages only, the kind that people complain about and the kind that nobody uses." -- someone on the internet that I am too lazy to google. A.K.A Bjarne Stroustrup

I truly don't see the value of this, every language brings something to the table.

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

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Post by _ea1k »

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.

I marked dislike on Actionscript because of AS3. Actionscript is basically Javascript, but with Actionscript 3 they added type annotations for static typing features. IMO, it did not fit in well with the language, and the integration between the two worlds (static vs dynamic typing) was poorly handled.

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

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Post by iliiilliilil »

joeblau wrote: post #5

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

It was a good idea but failed in execution. It might take fewer characters to type an instruction but at the cost of what? Being difficult to read? Ambiguity? Not really worth the time.
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