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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by simias on Thursday October 10, 2013 @09:21AM (#6527435)
1/ Because it's at the top of the list and people are more likely to cast a vote

2/ Because most people (myself included) don't know actionscript but think Actionscript == Flash and downvote based on that.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by LanceH on Thursday October 10, 2013 @10:19AM (#6527844)
There needs to be some way to differentiate people that hate a language for some external reason (anti-MS, anti-Apple, anti-Flash) or those who hate it from having used it. I suspect Java has more dislikes from actual users, where Actionscript and Perl get their dislikes from people who have never gone full time in either language.
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