I voted 'like' for erlang, but what I really meant was that I really like elixir :)
Thanks for creating such a fun language Jose!
Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
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Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#282Voted up: Scala, F#, Ruby, Python.
Voted down: PHP, JavaScript.
I do not like weak typing or silent errors. I do like functional programming.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#283And 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…
Agreed. Unfortunately its posts like these that have become the norm here.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#284What is it about CoffeeScript that people don't like?
It's near unreadable. It's optimizing the wrong things, prettiness (I don't think it's very pretty at all) and keystroke counts, vs readability, fewer errors and maintainability. It also bugs the fuck out of me that CoffeeScript projects frequently end up being given a *.js extension in the name and how often people who want nothing in the world to do with CoffeeScript, people like me, end up having to deal with it f…
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Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#285Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Polls like these are meant to be subjective and to encourage discussion. Dismissing them because they're not scientific kind of misses the point.
Also I see no reason why this is any more subjective than it claims—it's not asking for which language is some ill-defined notion of "best" but instead which ones people "like". I think it's perfectly reasonable to dislike a language you've never used. You can't claim it's a "bad" language (for reasons perhaps even above not having a definition for "bad") but I can't claim that you don't dislike it.
That fact that people are disliking languages they've never used is one of the reasons I'd agree the poll is meaningless. Sure, it's reasonable to dislike a language for whatever reason, but that doesn't mean that the results of such a free form poll can be interpreted in any meaningful way.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#287What is it about CoffeeScript that people don't like?
It's near unreadable. It's optimizing the wrong things, prettiness (I don't think it's very pretty at all) and keystroke counts, vs readability, fewer errors and maintainability. It also bugs the fuck out of me that CoffeeScript projects frequently end up being given a *.js extension in the name and how often people who want nothing in the world to do with CoffeeScript, people like me, end up having to deal with it f…
>It also bugs the fuck out of me that CoffeeScript projects frequently end up being given a *.js extension
If a project compiles down to Javascript and is intended to be used as such, a .js name suits it regardless of the source language.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#288And 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…
The like:dislike ratio is a metric with some information, as well as the absolute numbers of votes (for mindshare).
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I'm not sure where the idea originated that readability scales inversely with the number of parentheses, but I wish it would hurry up and die.
I'm not sure where the idea originated that readability scales with the number of parentheses, but I wish it would hurry up and die.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#290Damn 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…
I don't dislike Java as a language I learned OOP with it, actually, Java made programming exciting for me when I was learning. But what I really dislike are some tools around Java, maybe this is totally subjective, but I don't like its most common IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse, JDeveloper), I dislike the look and feel of its default desktop GUI libraries (Swing, AWT) (I know I know, who the hell still develops desktop apps these days?), but what I really dislike(almost hate) are the web frameworks from Oracle.
I'm sure there must be several great tools out there that replace those that I don't like, but I haven't had the time to explore.