Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 1:12 AM UTC

kingmanaz wrote: post #268

reginaldo wrote: post #77

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I feel likewise (except for the Perl part. I have the most fun working with PLT-Racket tools). I believe this happens because language design involves a lot of trade-offs, so every language incorporates these trade-offs. When one is comfortable in many kinds of languages, one is in a special position to see the trade-offs in the design of the language one is currently programming it. The way I see it is slightly diff…

Tradeoffs are a sign of a false dilemma; rather than choosing one solution or another, use them all where they work best. This is where Unix got it right all those years ago; Unix isn't just a slightly more stable platform for running today's bloated and monolithic software, rather, it's an elegant system for connecting maintainably-small utilities. The shell glues said utilities together into programs. Such an appro…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 1:12 AM UTC

siavosh wrote: post #307

SeanLuke wrote: post #283

This voting scheme is known as "single-vote-plurality". And it's a giant suckfest. Beyond two candidates, it completely falls apart, and tends to suggest very different results than the actual preferences of the voters. Hypothetical example. Let's say that 1/4 of HN likes C, then Lisp, then Python, then Java. 1/4 of HN likes Python, then Lisp, then C, then Java. 1/5 likes Lisp, then C, then Python, then Java. And 3/1…

I agree with the flawed voting scheme. What I don't understand is why the number one voted comment thread is on how great C# is when I can't last remember an article on HN talking about C#. This whole thread seems so contradictory to my perceptions of the HN community. Either there's a whole host of C# lovers that finally decided to participate in todays discussion (a silent majority), or microsoft evangelists are ta…

Post by zorked » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 1:21 AM UTC

Post by evincarofautumn » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 1:31 AM UTC

SeanLuke wrote: post #283

This voting scheme is known as "single-vote-plurality". And it's a giant suckfest. Beyond two candidates, it completely falls apart, and tends to suggest very different results than the actual preferences of the voters. Hypothetical example. Let's say that 1/4 of HN likes C, then Lisp, then Python, then Java. 1/4 of HN likes Python, then Lisp, then C, then Java. 1/5 likes Lisp, then C, then Python, then Java. And 3/1…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 1:31 AM UTC

SeanLuke wrote: post #283

This voting scheme is known as "single-vote-plurality". And it's a giant suckfest. Beyond two candidates, it completely falls apart, and tends to suggest very different results than the actual preferences of the voters. Hypothetical example. Let's say that 1/4 of HN likes C, then Lisp, then Python, then Java. 1/4 of HN likes Python, then Lisp, then C, then Java. 1/5 likes Lisp, then C, then Python, then Java. And 3/1…