"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup
But then there's python.
Is that the language with `pass`?
Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
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#122Easily Visual Basic for me. My first exposure academically to a programming language was Visual Basic. This was what they "force-taught" at school. I already had experience with Java/PHP/C, and just wreethed inside with disgust at the rationale for learning Visual Basic. It was a horrible experience that was forced upon me by my school's teacher. (I was about 16-17 at the time I think). As a form of silent defiance,…
my first academically forced language was Java and now I hate java the most. I wonder if more people hate the first language they got taught.
You may be on to something there. I despise BASIC and would never use it as an introductory language to someone learning how to program.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brainfuck is not a bad language, it just has different goals. Esoteric languages in general can't be compared with general purpose languages designed to be useful.
Brainfuck has the goal of being a bad language.
The goal of brainfuck is to be as minimal as possible. Being bad is just a side effect of that.
If you want a language that was designed to be bad look at Malbolge or INTERCAL.
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#124Shellscript - both sh and csh. It has horribly inconsistent syntax, a myriad of ridiculous quoting rules that always explode on you whenever something unexpected shows up as data, almost zero data structures, and you have to fork a process to do anything. If not for the fact that it comes standard on every UNIX system, everybody would be laughing at anyone who tried to write anything serious in it.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb ;p In all seriousness, I feel that a lot of people(me included) go through a period of hate for javascript until they find that it's actually has some impressive expressiveness using very small set of things.
You know, what I hate is the JS community. It seems JS is split into two camps: 1. Ordinary people trying to get something done. Often not professional programmers. These people account for most JS on the internet. 2. JS hipsters. The kind of people who use Node.js and worship Crockford. They refuse to accept that anybody might want to use a language other than JS on the web, or that if you only accept the "Good Part…
Perhaps the JS community you portray doesn't just exist in two discrete attitudes. As far as I see it, JS is a fact of the current web so trying to get the best from it is the easiest way to dull the pain of what is often clumsy and irritating. There are certainly places and uses where static typing would be great and the web is no exception but JavaScript isn't suddenly going to go away just because it's easy to write bad code, or because a load of 'hipsters' are making some flavour of it popular at the moment.
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#126AppleScript
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d give it a try if it worked on Windows or Linux. I’m not willing to buy a Mac just to be able to study a language-I could build a Hackintosh but it’s too much trouble for what it’s worth. Most of the languages out there work on any platform. Even C# works on Unices through Mono. But for Apple’s products its always the same story, our way or the highway.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the language itself can be used on almost any platform with gcc, not just OS X.
You're quite right, though of course you don't get the Cocoa libraries. GNUStep might give something of the same flavor, perhaps.
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#128I'm rather surprised that there are 30 people on HN that know COBOL well enough to dislike it most.
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#129You missed the worst one in the world - Mumps (or M). Terrible language that produces (seemingly automatically) terrible software. It also rots the brains of those that are forced to use it. All of those listed have their charms - seems hard to dislike them in the main.
thedailywtf.com usually posts horrible code bases that developed gradually over time. But their collection of MUMPS horror stories has convinced me that any project in MUMPS is already doomed. http://thedailywtf.com/gsearchresults.aspx?cx=00708007008730...
If only. There's a good chance that some of the important systems at your friendly neighborhood hospital are running on MUMPS.
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#130I had to use "PerfectScript" for something once. It was an awful awful experience.