Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua...
by hugofirth on Friday October 11, 2013 @05:59AM
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I never held that there was a right or wrong answer, however the purpose of a poll is to infer value to the people reading it (otherwise the OP might as well write it on a piece of paper and put it in a drawer).
The definition of "like" the verb is "To find agreeable, enjoyable, satisfactory". The key word in that definition is find. How can someone "like" (in the true meaning of the word) something, or for that matter "dislike" something, if they have never "found" (/used) that something in the first place.
Therefore it is incorrect to say that you personally like or dislike something if you have not had direct exposure to that something. At most it would be correct to say that others in your peer/social group like or dislike something.
This is not a pool for finding what is the "Best Language" (best language for what ?), but a pool to find what languages programmers like or dislike.
That is a matter of personal taste and opinion and there is not a wrong or a right answer.
Obviously if you have never seen or used or looked at the language you shouldn't vote on what other people say, but you don't really need to know the ins and out to make a personal decision.