Like: PHP, JavaScript Dislike: Go, Clojure, Haskell, Python
Surely you ment to write the opposite?
Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
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Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be really honest, a Lisp programmer doesn't really see that many parens in his code. And clojure doesn't even have those many parens. Maybe its just me, but I have only seen those who haven't used Lisp complain about too many parenthesis.
It was easy to dismiss Clojure for Scala and Haskell when I was first exploring functional programming. Clojure was alien. When extrapolating what it might be like to work with Clojure, prefix notation (+ 1 2) was an obvious downgrade to infix notation 1 + 2 in a REPL. Arrow-keying your way around s-expressions on http://tryclj.com/ just seemed to confirm it. But it's sort of like Vim: if you could see your Clojure w…
Indeed. Once you get hold of it, the REPLs and the prefix notations seem like a life saver, just like the complex Vim and Emacs key bindings.
Most just look at the code from outside, frown at it and leave without ever knowing the immense power the language and its workflow gives you.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#273Is it ok if I press both "Javascript - Like" and "Javascript Dislike"? :)
That's what I did :)
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#274Damn Java has a 1:2 like to dislike ratio. Why do people hate on Java? I'm totally biased because it is the first language I learned and I use it daily but seriously, why the dislike? It is powerful, portable, stable, hard to shoot yourself in the foot with, and tons of standard libraries. Also the libraries (standard or 3rd party) rarely violate the rule of least surprise. I can nearly always guess the right way to…
Because the language comes with a culture. Same with C#. C# is a great language. Horribly misused and taught in the weird manner, leading to incredible amounts of indirection that people confuse with abstraction.
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#275I have to admit I have strong preference to available editor/IDE or REPL rather than language itself.
I can adapt on any language if the language has enough feature set, but lack of fine toolset support is unacceptable. For instance, these features are highly expected
1. Syntax and scope based accurate auto-completion. 2. REPL debugger with accurate break-point and stepping.
These features are optional but make it awesome if exists.
3. Fully featured REPL. 4. A lot of proven libraries. 5. Exceptional linguistic features. 6. Fast build - compiled or interpreted for fast iteration. 7. ...
Of course, the language itself needs to be designed to support those toolset features.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#276What? No matlab/octave?
Those are two separate languages, you know. :-)
Some of the biggest annoyances about the Matlab language are not duplicated in Octave:
http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#What_features_are_unique_to_Octav...
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#277I try not to be a trend-following coder. I stick with what I know, what works and what seems to have the most documentation available.
Java, PHP, Python, C, Obj-C and C# are my likes.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Based on the numbers that I see, JavaScript is disliked more than ActionScript. When you take into account people's general dislike for anything flash related and how few people know anything about the language I think it did ok. What would be interesting would be to see a poll of the different versions of ECMAScript proposals and see what the public thinks of the real language differences between each. Classes are c…
> Based on the numbers that I see, JavaScript is disliked more than ActionScript
Not now: AS has an 84% dislike rate to JS' 39%.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#279A great follow up poll would be to find which languages people actually prefer to use the most.
I like haskell alot, but I can never think of what to do with it
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#280"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!!
>Anyone who disagrees with me is just ignorant! Do you have any evidence to support that notion? I find it quite the opposite. People who spent a decade being forced to use PHP know the language well, and dislike it. People who have never bothered to learn and just keep making the same mistakes over and over again defend PHP fervently, despite being almost entirely ignorant of the problems with the language.
>I'll invent a position from whole cloth then present it as a quote the parent comment to turn him into a straw man, then I'll have a debate with that straw man. Then I'll kick a puppy!
Why would you do that?
If you read my comment you'll note that I said "many hands go up" "most hands go down." I'm not saying everyone who dislikes PHP hasn't used it, merely that there's a large number of people here who dogpile on it for no reason other than "it's popular to do so" or "I'm half way thru _why's Poignant Guide so I'm pretty sure that qualifies me to comment on every programming language and why it isn't as good as ruby."
Please note that: a) I use PHP but I'm not a slob, I critique bad PHP freely[0] and b) people are coming out of the woodwork saying 'yeah I don't use PHP but I downvoted it'[1] so I think it's fair to say my original assertion (many people are "disliking" PHP from an uninformed position, merely because it's popular) stands.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6510051 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528073 "I voted dislike to PHP despite not having used it."
EDIT: trigger warning- more sarcasm | Here are some more thoughtful, informed, salient comments about PHP that really add to the discussion and aren't just "lol php suxx amirite??":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527334