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As a discussion of any programming language grows longer, the probability of a bashing against such language approaches 1. Any similarity with Godwin's law is
by Aldo_MX 12y ago
As a discussion of any programming language grows longer, the probability of a bashing against such language approaches 1.
Any similarity with Godwin's law is mere coincidence.
- krapp 12y agoThere are languages that everybody hates, and then there are the languages nobody uses.
- peterevans 12y agoThis is sadly true, on so, so many levels...
- superuser2 12y agoThere are languages whose communities everybody hates, but it doesn't seem to be that everybody hates Ruby or Clojure or whatever. Just that everybody hates their trendiness.
- spacemanmatt 12y agoI haven't found the Clojure haters yet but I can find a Ruby hater without looking too hard.
- dkarapetyan 12y agoCurious about the hate. As far as languages go Ruby is as coherent as it gets.
- lolpep8 12y agoAll the reflection and abuse of mixins are pretty worthy of hate.
- dkarapetyan 12y agoThat's like saying you hate lisp because of macros or that buffer overrun exploits are reason to hate C. That's just shitty programmers doing shitty programming.
- Dylan16807 12y agoBuffer overruns are a completely valid reason to dislike C.
- pbiggar 12y agoClojure is the language I hate the least!
- heinrich5991 12y agoI believe C++ is not hated universally and is still used like everywhere.
- krapp 12y agoFair enough... it's not hated universally, but it is hated passionately by some.
- Aldo_MX 12y agoNo language is hated universally, even JavaScript got some love[1]. [1] http://javascript.crockford.com http://javascript.crockford.com
- coldtea 12y agoTo better word the original saying: "There are languages that the minority of geeks that like to quarel about languages hates, and there are languages that nobody uses -- but for both cases, the millions of programmers out there could not care less".
- Dewie 12y agoAnd then there is C#. (implication being that I almost never see anyone hating on C#, and yet C# is really used a lot, obviously. Hey, I was probably gonna have to add this part to the post as an edit, anyway; might as well get it out of the way.)
- krapp 12y agoOk. I can't argue with that. C# is actually pretty nice. Although I suppose one could rant about it being so deeply tied to Microsoft and the .net architecture.
- alien3d 12y agoJust learn and code in c#.. Really tense... Code work in visual studio but compile output diff.string and array kinda weak to me..I love pup because of string manipulation.(string) (int) casting both in php and c# also..still learning c#.
- dragonwriter 12y agoAs any discussion grows longer, the probability of an utterance in the discussion meeting any particular description increases monotonically with a limit of 1. The similarity between your observation and Godwin's law (and every possible observation of similar form) is not coincidence.