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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 rip747 »

sjwright wrote: post #146
rip747 wrote: post #83

seeing 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.

> its CFML, NOT ColdFusion And this isn't some academic or semantic point -- the best implementation of CFML isn't even ColdFusion.

+1 for Railo!

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

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Post by anuragramdasan »

While I find this poll rather insignificant and pointless, I can't help being amused by the amount of downvotes Common Lisp and Clojure have received. Can someone(probably someone who downvoted) please explain me what is wrong with those languages? Not being a snark, just curious.

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

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Post by dnissley »

stinos wrote: post #149
V-2 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Collections in Java are awful. Guava helps a bit, but it's still poor man's substitute. No LINQ, no lambdas (and the upcoming Java streams API is ugly as well), no delegates, no events. Verbosity. C# is a very nice language, only WPF sucks big time.

Used WPF a couple of times, not that bad at all? What exactly do you think can be improved? Are there alternatives to it?

Basic binding works wonderfully, and the MVVM pattern is a good idea, but it just doesn't seem to work that well in practice. Some basic things seem overly difficult to do. I feel like there's a WPF way of doing things, but there is no reference for what that is.

For example: I had a DataGrid, and I was trying to figure out how to respond to the KeyUp event on a specific row, but only when it was the Delete key. I ended up having to create a custom dependency property in order to do that. 80 lines of code and a new class with 7 members later, I was able to reference that in my view and connect it to a method in my viewmodel. It works, but my lord it took me hours of googling and trying different things out for what seems like should be very simple functionality.

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

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Post by ceronman »

semjada wrote: post #30
joeblau wrote: post #5

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

too similar to python

Not at all. I love Python and I don't like CoffeeScript. I think CS superficially looks like Python, but conceptually is more like Ruby/Perl.

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

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Post by efa »

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…

My thought exactly. Actually I was think - "geez, these people are such hipsters". Everyone loves the "cool" languages - Scala, Haskell, etc. But of course the lame languages suck (Java). Though I was pleasantly surprised to see the love for C#. It's a very nice language and you'd think being from MS it wouldn't be "cool".

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

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Post by igravious »

joeblau wrote: post #5

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

Fixes a non-problem.

Ok, so Javascript has a bunch of gotchas but it's an interesting language which I both like and dislike but I don't dislike it enough to add yet another layer to my dev platform.

Also, as someone stated elsewhere on this page the true solution is to make a browser virtual machine and use any high level interpreted language you want.

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