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Re: Which programming language do you really hate?

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Post by DjDarkman » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 10:35 AM UTC

I hate Java it has the following reasons:

- it turns programming into a typefest

- it assumes that a project has an architect and that architect can plan everything right from the start

- it's slow

- it's highly inconsistent, int v.s. Integer

- it pretends to be strongly typed, still you get a bundle of runtime errors, that it can't protect you from, also you have the Object....

I hate C# because, it's: Java + bloat.

Re: Which programming language do you really hate?

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Post by wlievens » Sun, Nov 07, 2010, 9:49 PM UTC

goalieca wrote: post #3

Matlab. That language is what I was "encouraged" to write the bulk of my thesis in. It's essentially the VB of the scientific community. Such a horrible language with a horrible runtime and an unbelievably limited vector syntax considering that is all it was designed for.

This is true. The most abhorrent fact is that [the version I used some six years ago] it would parse line by line while executing. So you would only get errors if the line actually got executed. The whole idea of line-based syntaxes is dubious in my view, but this makes it even worse.

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