Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

Post by asdasf » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 2:08 PM UTC

homersapien wrote: post #116

sequoia wrote: post #52

"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!!

PHP haters are hysterical, I mean that in the clinical sense. It is powerful, flexible, blazing fast (relative, I know), and arguably the easiest (or at least most accessible) language to learn. Its flexibility is what generates most of the hate. It gives you the freedom to create some really bad/stupid code, which noobs inevitably do. But hating it because it will let you hurt yourself is like hating a table saw bec…

Post by kshay » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 2:08 PM UTC

sequoia wrote: post #52

"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!!

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 2:09 PM UTC

jashkenas wrote: post #92

throwaway_yy2Di wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The syntax is broken. Things like operator precedence and associativity are the exact opposite of math conventions: f x + f y // is f(x + f(y)) f g x // is f(g(x))

Not quite -- the rule is pretty simple: Implicit function calls associate to the right, to the end of the line (or the end of the trailing block). This allows you to write code like this: console.log inspect value model.save(attrs).then -> ui.update attrs rect.scale height * factor ... and have all of the results come out correctly, while leaving the code readable. If the rules were "more math-like" as you say, then…

Post by jrgnsd » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 2:10 PM UTC

behrendtio wrote: post #67

sequoia wrote: post #52

"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!!

Not in my experience though. The people who do like PHP are the ones who started with it and didn't use it too much yet. In my exp. a lot of ruby/python/node.js devs are former PHP developers who built several websites using PHP and switched because they got pissed about PHP (or stuff that is related to PHP). More interestingly imho is the percentage of people who hate PHP but still use it most of their time, since t…

Post by bolder88 » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 2:11 PM UTC

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…