most hated programming language

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mjs82
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09 Nov 2005, 12:04 am

as an engineering student, we get forced to use Fortran an awful lot. It is probably one of the most pointless languages in existence. I just find it overtly useless. I'm sure however, that there may be people who disagree though.

rearden
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12 Nov 2005, 3:06 am

VBScript. It seems like it was designed to be as annoying and overly verbose as possible.

Pete1051
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15 Nov 2005, 11:50 pm

javascript is annoying as hell.

I use mostly C#, It's not quite as cryptic as C++. I know the .NET framework has it's limitations, but anything microsoft has it's limitations.

What's this about not being allowed to disclose performance data on .NET stuff? What you're not allowed to tell people if microsoft stuff sucks? I though that was common knowledge.

Java is useless. it started as a good idea but never really went anywhere.

I haven't messed with any of those old school languages like cobol or fortran. Are they even useful for anything these days? I thought C++ had pretty much taken over everything.

I like OO programming, It seems more natural to me. It just makes sense. How could someone see it as an NT way of thinking. I think all programming is AS thinking.

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15 Nov 2005, 11:51 pm

PS: I agree Visual Basic sucked.

synx13
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17 Nov 2005, 3:59 am

lisp liiisp. lisp, lisp, lisp. Lisp is a cruel word by itself, since people who do, cannot say it. "Hello, my name is John and I have a..."
"A what?"
"Well that--I have a--uh..."
"You stutter?"
"No, I don't! I have a lithp."
"Lithp? What's a lithp?"
"A lithp! It'th where you can't thay the eth thound!"

Anyway. It's like I have said in the past, ""Lisp was designed to be the perfect language... much like Communism was designed to be the perfect government... completely ignoring how sentient minds work." And I'm Communist!

(when (we 'have (contextual (recursion-with (side "effects") (and redefinition (it (is hard) (to (tell what (any-given (symbol 'really (means)))))))))))

((with lamdba (lamdba (setq) setq) (lambda setq)) setq "god, please kill me now")

I am so glad fonts stopped working on emacs. These days gvim, thunderbird and mutt do all I need, without any of those confusing recursive paranthetical statements. I think in stacks, not lists.