As expected, hatred is roughly proportional to popularity. Bjarne was right when he said "There are only two kinds of programming language: the ones people comp

As expected, hatred is roughly proportional to popularity. Bjarne was right when he said "There are only two kinds of programming language: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." Actually if we compare the Stack Exchange hatred list against the TIOBE index, then we can correct for the amount of 'expected' hatred (the kind that is proportional with usage) VBScript: Hated much more than expected PHP: Hated more than expected Java: Hated less than expected Visual Basic: Hated slightly more than expected ColdFusion: Hated much more than expected C++: Hated much less than expected Disclaimer, those are a bunch of vague guesses based on two sources of questionable data.