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Here are the languages ranked by likes/dislikes ratio (I compared the above poll with the "dislike" poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961 http://new
by lunchbox 15y ago
Here are the languages ranked by likes/dislikes ratio (I compared the above poll with the "dislike" poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961). For example, for each person who downvoted Clojure, there were 28.8 who upvoted it. This ranking is fairer to languages that are well liked by those who use them, but not as well known:
Clojure 28.8
Python 26.5
Haskell 19.7
C 17.3
Lua 16.4
Lisp 11.5
Erlang 9.9
Ruby 8.4
Scheme 8.1
C# 7.9
OCaml 7.3
Smalltalk 7.1
Scala 6.4
D 4.4
CoffeeScript 3.6
JavaScript 3.5
Forth 3.2
Groovy 2.9
Assembly 2.5
Ada 1.7
Objective C 1.6
Perl 1.6
SQL 1.4
Pascal 1.3
Rexx 1.3
Delphi 1.2
C++ 1.0
Tcl 0.9
Fortran 0.7
PHP 0.7
Shell 0.7
Java 0.6
Actionscript 0.6
ColdFusion 0.4
Cobol 0.1
Visual Basic 0.1
- beza1e1 15y agoNot everybody can downvote. That adds significant noise to this data.
- lunchbox 15y agoI used the term "downvote" figuratively -- I don't mean literal downvotes on this poll (I don't think anyone can downvote a poll option anyway, and even if you could I wouldn't be able to isolate upvotes from downvotes since we just see the combined number); I mean votes for "least favorite language" in the other poll.