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Re:YourLanguageSucks - The Wiki Edition by smosher on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:34AM (#2757888)
Not liking it.

A lot of the things that supposedly suck could be argued either way. Above all, I've found the majority of the cases are the result of a failure to understand language semantics. It certainly sucks when you don't know the language you're using, but that's your responsibility. I found the language I didn't like were criticized for all the wrong reasons: reasonable design choices necessary to support the language's intended use, inconsequential foibles, etc.

I get it, one is supposed to feel perhaps mildly offended, then chastened and finally humbled. That's a good cause.

Re:YourLanguageSucks - The Wiki Edition by Hrundi on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:12AM (#2757852)
You had me until "Supports 'goto'." in the C# section.

I wish people would stop demonizing that keyword. I've met a lot of coders that say to me "'goto' sucks" and when asked why, they say "our teacher said that" and they can't elaborate on the reason.

Re:YourLanguageSucks - The Wiki Edition by ScottBurson on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @02:19AM (#2758014)
The reason 'goto' sucks is that you can't pass arguments with it.

It's not really the presence of 'goto' that sucks; it's the absence of local functions with tail calls. 'goto' handles only the degenerate case of parameterless local functions.