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I don't discriminate. All languages are equal in my eyes, each with their own quirks and adventures. Except PHP, PHP can fuck off.
Thanks! :)
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VBA and VBScript (iirc) have only On Error Resume Next, while VB6 has On Error Goto. This is a tremendous difference in how you structure your program's error handling.
VBA in MS Access has On Error Goto.
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But perhaps the cool languages of today are cool precisely because they offer real advantages. Maybe they're advantageous only in our unique historical moment. That has yet to be seen. If their popularity fades over time, that won't mean they were simply hipster fads. It could just as easily mean they met significant needs at one point in time, but the needs changed, or we developed better tools that met those same n…
As long as we can agree that Java is cool whatever this poll says ;-) Based on this poll Java is not cool and most likely doesn't offer real advantages...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961942/what-is-the-worst-...
I asked this on SO because I'm interested in flaws in language design. I found lots of weird language quirks in the the answers. I'm not sure if the vote count is useful information, but PHP got most up-votes and Lisp received the most down-votes.
In my very uninformed, and novice opinion, which you should entirely disregard, it is my probably incorrect estimation that the Rust developers are in maybe over their heads. I don't like saying negative things about an interesting idea, good engineers who mean well, so I don't like this so please someone convince me why I'm wrong. A few things: The multiple ways to manage memory seem completely messy to me, the vari…
Over in D language land, we've actively discouraged people from rolling their own encryption libraries. We strongly recommend people use standard, vetted libraries like openssl if they are serious about needing encryption. D can interface directly to C libraries.
I don't see it as a language issue at all. It's more like there are so many subtle issues with doing encryption right that one should be standing on the shoulders of giants rather than starting over.
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For me, it just feels like instead of taking efforts to carefully design the language, they just picked the first thing that worked and froze it. And while I really like some features of the type system (such as interfaces, lambda/function types, multiple return values, and the "type switch"), the lack of overloading and generics does have some pretty serious effects on readability (especially when you have compiler-…
A lot of the things you're claiming the Go designers chose off-hand one afternoon are really things they've liked and been doing for decades. Take a look at the Limbo programming language and you'll see a more primitive version of Go; it was written by a lot of the same people. Before Limbo, there was Plan 9's C dialect and its associated libraries, which have some similar elements. Before Plan 9, of course, these gu…
But...`go fmt` does this for you :-)
type Magic struct {
CastingCost string
Id int
}
Funny, I'd say I like functional programming... and yet I disliked all the functional and/or lisp-like languages that are the bees knees these days... Scala, Scheme, Clojure, Haskell, F#, ... All of them have neat sides, but I'm not really productive in any of them. There are things like too-clever type systems that get into your way, instead of catching errors. Constness can be silly in C++ if you are not careful, b…
add :: Int -> Int -> Int
add a b = a + bRegarding the language itself, what's there to dislike about C#?
Variance is messed up, lack of higher kinded types, type inference is pretty awful, no implicit conversion, too much boilerplate for a small method call. sometimes I just want to write: public static String getFirstThree(String s) = s.SubString(3); etc. But, the fact that it has LINQ, good lambda support, and some type inference make it a very good language over all.
If you know about kinding, you probably understand that type system design really has to go hand-in-hand with language design. Introducing those kinds of breaking changes now is incredibly difficult, unfortunately.
As far as boilerplate goes, though, I can't promise anything but I can say that we hear you and this is something that could get attention in the near future.
"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…
I wouldn't want to engage in a big project in a language as unstable as that.
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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.