There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. - Bjarne Stroustrup On the other hand, this was said

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. - Bjarne Stroustrup On the other hand, this was said by the creator of C++ and correlation doesn't imply causality; maybe some of the factors that contribute to a language becoming mainstream also cause irritation.