Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

Post by thatthatis » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

sequoia wrote: post #280

asdasf wrote: post #120

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>Anyone who disagrees with me is just ignorant! Do you have any evidence to support that notion? I find it quite the opposite. People who spent a decade being forced to use PHP know the language well, and dislike it. People who have never bothered to learn and just keep making the same mistakes over and over again defend PHP fervently, despite being almost entirely ignorant of the problems with the language.

>I'll invent a position from whole cloth then present it as a quote the parent comment to turn him into a straw man, then I'll have a debate with that straw man. Then I'll kick a puppy! Why would you do that? If you read my comment you'll note that I said " many hands go up" " most hands go down." I'm not saying everyone who dislikes PHP hasn't used it, merely that there's a large number of people here who dogpile on…

Post by MAGZine » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

V-2 wrote: post #69

sequoia wrote: post #52

"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!!

many, most - weasel words

Post by druiid » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 5:50 PM UTC

sjwright wrote: post #141

Saddened to see a high number of ColdFusion dislike votes. As a CFML developer who routinely bears the brunt of gleeful derision, allow me to point out what you're missing out on. Yes, ColdFusion was a bit awful in its early days, but to be fair, it was pretty much the first of its breed, predating PHP, JSP, and ASP. Modern CFML is a JVM-native language and framework that runs in a Java servlet engine. There are thre…

Post by jff » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 5:53 PM UTC

staunch wrote: post #376

jff wrote: post #369

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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…

> If you're worried about lining up all your code in perfect multi-line arrangements, maybe rethink your life. But...`go fmt` does this for you :-) type Magic struct { CastingCost string Id int } Even though I'm not really a fan of the choice myself.

  func someFunc(arg1 string,
                arg2 string,
                arg3 int,
                ) bool
  {

Post by Locke1689 » Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

Pxtl wrote: post #153

adolfojp wrote: post #25

This poll should be more specific with Visual Basic. There are a few different languages that share the name VB. VBA VB.NET VB6 VBScript

And honestly, VB6 and VB.Net both get a bad rap. VB6 excelled at what it was designed to do, it was an easy-to-use language that was the fastest way to get a GUI up onto the screen and throw together a simple program. I learned on VB4 and it was great. It was the whole COM thing and the serious enterprise perversions of it that ruined the language. VBA and VBScript, on the other hand, are abominations - the lack of a…