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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by bovermyer on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @02:35PM (#10509010)
My favorite observation from that data: people who write Haskell on OS X are more likely to hate things.

I know it's not really a solid principle, but I think it's funny regardless.

Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by bendykstra on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @03:04PM (#10509219)
Another interpretation, since these are voluntarily reported on a CV, is that the people citing OS X and Haskell are more likely to be trying to differentiate themselves. They want to be seen to "Think Different." In the likes column, they add a prestigious and difficult language or an OS associated with an exclusive brand. In the dislikes, they put items that are seen as mainstream.
Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by ifdefdebug on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @02:50PM (#10509117)
While people who write c# code on windows tend to take it easy...
Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by autoreleasepool on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @03:55PM (#10509664)
Neither C# nor Windows is on the graph the parent comment is referencing. On the other end of that graph is linux and scala.
Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by aidenn0 on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:02PM (#10509732)
You're both wrong. The graph the GP references is solely the top 12 most polarized. You need to go down one more char to get the opposite end (It includes asp.net but not C#).
Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by autoreleasepool on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @06:42PM (#10510610)
Yeah, you're right. My apologies.
Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by hesselink on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:26PM (#10509902)
Hey, that's me! And I do hate a lot of things... including Haskell and OS X sometimes :)