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Just for fun I wrote a script to take the diff of the score values for the "most liked" languages in the other thread and the "least liked": Actionscript -59

Just for fun I wrote a script to take the diff of the score values for the "most liked" languages in the other thread and the "least liked": Actionscript -59 Ada 8 Assembly 53 C 809 C# 626 C++ 29 Clojure 386 Cobol -51 CoffeeScript 245 ColdFusion -43 D 38 Delphi 6 Erlang 133 Forth 24 Fortran -9 Haskell 445 Java -324 JavaScript 899 Lisp 258 Lua 123 OCaml 63 Objective C 113 Other 148 PHP -254 Pascal 6 Perl 105 Python 2639 Rexx 2 Ruby 1346 SQL 29 Scala 181 Scheme 149 Shell -25 Smalltalk 47 Tcl -1 Visual Basic -445 (Negative numbers mean the dislikes outweighed the likes)

pestaa 15y ago
First I was a bit disappointed by how much hate C++ gets but I'm happy to see it on the positive side even by just a tiny amount. That said, this poll is not online for the same period of time. Not that negative points could take away anything C++ can do for me.
- seanmcdirmid 15y ago
  You can only love or hate C++ if you've used it, and I would guess that many readers on hackernews have never had the pleasure of using C++ a lot before; i.e., as a professional C++ programmer (though this would be an interesting poll to take!). I listed C++ as a dislike, and I believe it deserves the hate. C++ basically means full employment for PL engineers (like myself) to build decent parsers (C++ is almost unparsable), compilers, bug checkers (C++ code is dense with bugs that can be found via analysis), and so on. I came to a point in my career early on where I realized that this was just ridiculous, so I got out of the C++ tool industry just as fast as I got into it (and worked on Scala instead, sort of ironic). Many people have to use C++; e.g., if you are writing embedded systems, OSes (device drivers), or games. Most everyone not in those industries will just continue to stay away from it.

pestaa 15y ago

First I was a bit disappointed by how much hate C++ gets but I'm happy to see it on the positive side even by just a tiny amount. That said, this poll is not online for the same period of time. Not that negative points could take away anything C++ can do for me.

seanmcdirmid 15y ago
You can only love or hate C++ if you've used it, and I would guess that many readers on hackernews have never had the pleasure of using C++ a lot before; i.e., as a professional C++ programmer (though this would be an interesting poll to take!). I listed C++ as a dislike, and I believe it deserves the hate. C++ basically means full employment for PL engineers (like myself) to build decent parsers (C++ is almost unparsable), compilers, bug checkers (C++ code is dense with bugs that can be found via analysis), and so on. I came to a point in my career early on where I realized that this was just ridiculous, so I got out of the C++ tool industry just as fast as I got into it (and worked on Scala instead, sort of ironic). Many people have to use C++; e.g., if you are writing embedded systems, OSes (device drivers), or games. Most everyone not in those industries will just continue to stay away from it.