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Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
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Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#472Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand that attitude. First, you can use C# really well without depending on any Microsoft tech. Second, Microsoft standardized the language and made a community promise not to enforce their C#-related patents (like e.g. Oracle did against Google for Java). So, it free, it has full FOSS tooling. What's the problem?
The word "Microsoft" tends to evoke emotion, highly irrational in many cases, despite any actual facts present. With that said, I know a lot of devs who hate almost everything about MS that actually do like C#.
It's not an irrational behaviour to say "I don't know where you're holding the knife this time, but it's not worth the effort to find out"
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#473Damn Java has a 1:2 like to dislike ratio. Why do people hate on Java? I'm totally biased because it is the first language I learned and I use it daily but seriously, why the dislike? It is powerful, portable, stable, hard to shoot yourself in the foot with, and tons of standard libraries. Also the libraries (standard or 3rd party) rarely violate the rule of least surprise. I can nearly always guess the right way to…
If you've ever tried C# it's hard to go back to Java without hating it, because they are so similar but Java is much more crippled both language- and standard library-wise.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#474Can somebody who disliked Python please tell me their reasons for doing so?
>>Can somebody who disliked Python please tell me their reasons for doing so? Well, for one thing -- the programming language culture seems to have something rotten [as in cult like] in it, if people really find it surprising that anyone can dislike the language... 1/2 :-) A question like that from your 12-karma account as its 9th comment is a typical example of the start of a baiting session from a troll. I'm frankl…
That's a very dismissive attitude to take. If you wanted to know if I was a troll, you could've read any of those 9 comments and found out yourself.
Just curious for the reasons for not liking Python.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#475Saddened 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…
An interesting fact about Railo/CFML is that the recently lauded Distrokid[1] site that got rave reviews from many HNers was built in Railo[2].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519175 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519743
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have no idea what you're talking about. XXX is terrible. The new release of YYY has solved a lot of the problems that most people complain about.
None of the ideas in YYY are new. It's a mundane and vulgar rehash of things we already had in the ZZZ in 80s but done badly. OK, so the world's largest sites run YYY -- that's pure luck, not science. Or the fault corporate HR drones that don't know better asking for YYY skills. Or a massive conspiracy. Or maybe programmers just are dumber now than 10 years ago. How can YYY even be taken seriously when not supporting…
You forgot to say "I don't get why anyone is surprised by..", to get the full HN bingo card.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#477Based on data Wednesday at 1AM Mountain Time
Actionscript 21.22%
Ada 109.92%
Assembly 247.81%
C 700.00%
C++ 69.75%
C# 241.94%
Clojure 363.72%
Cobol 6.38%
CoffeeScript 81.26%
ColdFusion 6.09%
D 162.59%
Delphi 64.06%
Erlang 332.28%
Forth 219.63%
Fortran 48.24%
Go 308.56%
Groovy 45.58%
Haskell 391.49%
Java 46.51%
JavaScript 159.88%
Lisp 435.29%
Lua 526.32%
Objective-C 71.76%
OCaml 268.64%
PHP 30.28%
Pascal 106.33%
Perl 66.31%
Python 636.01%
R 122.91%
Rexx 43.48%
Ruby 162.21%
Rust 376.99%
Scala 161.52%
Scheme 525.41%
Shell 126.68%
Smalltalk 239.60%
SQL 254.29%
Tcl 56.31%
Visual Basic 12.26%
Other 155.56%
F# 270.00%
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#478Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that one perplexed me. I don't think anyone can deny Java's usefulness. I guess a lot of the hate is from people who find Java useful but still annoying. For my part, I don't think it's bad at all. When I use Java, I miss conveniences like `people.map { |p| [p.name, p.address] }`. But in exchange for typing more characters, Java gives me a huge ecosystem, good docs, effortless cross-platform coding, and pretty…
Why not use Clojure or another JMV language and get the same ecosystem at similar or less characters? (map (juxt :name :address) people)
Maturity and longevity, mostly. For really serious projects, I prefer to mitigate my risk by picking something that's been mainstream for a long time and isn't likely to die off. I'm not saying Clojure, Scala, JRuby, etc. are going to die off. Just that it's too early to tell.
Also, it's not exactly the same ecosystem. Yes, you can use all the Java libraries. But the ecosystem also includes the dev environment/build system, the written material, and the peopleware associated with the language. You don't automatically import all of these from Java just because you're using the JVM.
Re: Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?
#479See this poll in a table sorted by like/dislike quotient.
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
German original: http://helmbold.de/artikel/programmiersprachen-beliebtheit