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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 iliiilliilil »

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 they will browse the first 20 entries or so and then get bored and skip to the end.

Why would I need to browse down the list? Nobody here has used every language in existence. You hit ctrl-F and cast your vote on your favorite and least favorite.

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

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Post by iliiilliilil »

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.

Did you even read the last thread? What you said did not happen then and it isn't happening now. You're the only person posting pointless comments in the whole thread.

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

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Post by adolfojp »

wting wrote: post #38
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.

Some VB variants like VBA, VBScript, and VB6, are indeed similar enough to be grouped into a single item, I'll grant you that. VB.NET, however, is not. It's basically C# in VB's clothing. It kept the VB name and some of its syntax to bring VB6 developers into the world of .NET.

So, IMHO, grouping VB.NET with VB6 would be like grouping C, C++, and C# together just because they have a C in their names.

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

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Post by wslh »

I like C# more than Java because:

- The .NET Framework is a straightforward way to solve a problem vs pattern oriented solutions. This is not about the programming language itself but how the people in that community think about a problem

- C# evolved more than Java and it was more pragmatic. There are no operators in Java.

- I really like the diversity and maturity of third party Java libs. That's why I use IKVM when I need to use a lib from Java in .NET and why I use Jython. Examples here: http://blog.databigbang.com/tag/ikvm/ and here: http://blog.databigbang.com/tag/jython

I don't like Javascript, I would like to replace it with a standard VM to run other programming languages like Python.

I like C++ for performance oriented applications and when good libraries are available. For example I like CryptoPP.

I like Objective-C and their additions like Grand Central Dispatch. I like XCode.

I love Python: it's straightforward to build stuff.

I don't like PHP but many times I prefer to build some web scripts using PHP.

I like Pascal for teaching algorithms. More than C, because is less ambiguous.

I don't like C anymore except for firmware.

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

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Post by wting »

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 will be obvious winners and losers, but I'm interested in the long tail results.

The poll quantifies a community's thoughts as only the vocal minority comment while the majority lurks. It provides a snapshot for comparison with other communities or even to Hacker News 18 months ago.

Language threads will provide more insightful commentary, but a general poll is useful for macro trend discussion.

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

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Post by ordinary »

glanotte wrote: post #44

"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.

Stroustrup.
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