Why people dislike ActionScript ? we are talking about the language , not the Flash Plateform. As a language ActionScript is what Javascript should have been ,strict enough for large scale programs , dynamic enough to be written fast. Flash is the plateform and the framework , actionscript is the language. I dont really get that hate for ActionScript.
Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
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#82"Raise your hand if you hate PHP" many hands go up "Keep your hand up if you've actually built a project using PHP" most hands go down But my coool poooints!! I need to show the guys I hate PHP so they won't think I'm a newb!!
I used PHP when it was PHP/FI, that's "personal home page form interpreter" for you young 'uns. No-one calls me a n00b.
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#83seeing how there was quite a bit of CFML bashing going on yesterday, i doesn't surprise me that ColdFusion has that many dislike votes.
BTW, its CFML, NOT ColdFusion. ColdFusion is a product, CFML is the language. it would be the same as having JRuby on the list instead of Ruby. if you're going to have a poll on programming languages, then at least label said languages correctly.
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#84What is it about CoffeeScript that people don't like?
CoffeeScript is only syntactic sugar. It brings very little new to the table, but perhaps worse of all, it doesn't really fix all of JavaScript's WTF-issues while adding a few of its own. While it's an improvement over JavaScript, its advantages are sometimes outweighed by the extra hassle to compile and deploy it. I don't really dislike it but I really do not see myself using it if I had a task where I needed JavaSc…
Suprisingly, I have never even thought about compiling on Coffeescript since my rails app does that for me. Personally, I love using Coffeescript because it's just so much easier to write compared to javascript without thinking about braces and semi-colons. On the whole, I guess what framework you use affects how you use a language. In rails projects, it's very efficient to use coffeescript over javascript.
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#85Dislike ActionScript - Like JavaScript.
Interesting ...
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#86I know this is 100% subjective, as is the nature with most polls, but I must say I don't understand why python is such a darling . What's the deal? I just want to understand... I feel like I'm missing out on something (like seeing the boat in the magic eye pictures)
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#87What I like: Python (3), C, C++, Shell. What I dislike: Java, C#, PHP, Objective-C. Python (3): it just has ridiculously powerful data structures and sensible error messages C: it's simple(ish), fast and keeps yuppies away C++: has great libraries and frameworks like Qt, is fast Shell: quick and simple for small tasks Java: mainstream and boring, people expect me to use it and work with horribly broken code created b…
>C#: Microsoft
Mono, XSP, Xamarin, etc. make your argument pretty much moot if you set up properly. C# is an ECMA standard, most of the C# source code is open source or is being open sourced, and there is a large and active open source C# community. This may have been true 5-10 years ago, but if you're really super anti-MS, you can still use C# today. It's a fantastic language with fantastic libraries.
Disclaimer: I've only toyed around with mono for web programming, I've not used it in production, and the baked in authentication libraries (aka Forms Authentication) seem to have some problems still, but we ARE using Xamarin in production for our mobile apps and it's working fine.
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#88Javascript having a higher approval rating than coffeescript is actually pretty interesting.
Why is that? I prefer JavaScript to CoffeeScript, and I imagine that more people have used JS than have even tried CS.
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#89I 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 whe…
What's a "pattern-oriented solution"? As opposed to what?
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#90D - Like