Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by atwebb on Thursday October 10, 2013 @09:10AM (#6527358)

There's going to be the common blabber and hating on the usual suspects but polls like this tend to be good ways to bring up a general topic and let everyone discuss. Maybe it would've been better in a AskHN but at least here we get a list to reference (and for people to get angry at what's missing, people love getting angry). Also, it gives a view of what this specific community in this specific thread feels and adds to the context when reading other threads.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by simias on Thursday October 10, 2013 @09:13AM (#6527374)

I don't think it usually creates interesting discussion. Just a billion of comments with no replies along the line of "XXX is great!" "YYY sucks!".

Everybody talks and nobody listens. It's just pointless popularity contest.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by debacle on Thursday October 10, 2013 @09:20AM (#6527433)

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.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by Erwin on Thursday October 10, 2013 @10:12AM (#6527785)

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 homobubonic retroviral proto-smurfs? In fact, I've just written a nice tutorial on smurfs in ZZZ and how smurfs are just like smurfs -- once you are past that, writing a complex application like a "20 questions" game should not be a problem.

Don't get me started on dynamic versus static smurfing!

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by tripzilch on Monday October 14, 2013 @05:11PM (#6549667)

You forgot to say "I don't get why anyone is surprised by..", to get the full HN bingo card.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by bolder88 on Thursday October 10, 2013 @10:11AM (#6527775)

Polls like this are the equivalent of asking a builder if he likes wood, metal, concrete, plywood, slate, etc. Or if he likes a saw more than a hammer.

Which only a complete moron would do.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by Abscissa on Thursday October 10, 2013 @06:27PM (#6530421)

That's only a valid comparison if you're really big into polyglot programming AND believe that all languages are great in their own special way.

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