Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
I chose PHP because it's gathers everything I hate about any language in one spot.* It has everything including the kitchen sink but nothing in the decor matches. There is no unifying principle to help you grok the language* The Community is all about quick hacky fixes to already broken code and this approach seems to flow from the core developers out.* It's not type safe, not even at runtime. I don't know if I ever want to work in a language that doesn't have proper type safety as a guard rail. (Note I'm not talking about compile time vs runtime type safety I'm just talking about type safety period)* The code is just plain ugly to look at and I used to be a pretty heavy perl coder so that's saying something.I know some of these are pretty subjective but for me php just manages to hit every single one of my top programming language gripes.If you want to know my favourite that's a much harder question to answer. Golang has been pleasing me lately although it's interfaces have a very tiny hole in the type safety.ML and it's varying descendants have as close to my ideal type system as I've ever seen. But the chances I'll ever get to use it for a job are slim to none and it seems the community is a little too academic for my taste.Lisp has the most awesome metaprogramming built in and I had a brief heady love affair with it until it's lack of good type safety brought me back to earth.I suppose all this means I'm one day fated to write my own "ideal" programming language so it can be featured in a list like this :-)