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Re: What programming language do you hate the most?by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) |
on Dec 07, 2017 at 03:41 UTC ( [id://1205072]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Of the over twenty programming languages I've used over the years, the two I dislike most are COBOL and PHP. As indicated by Larry's quote above, writing poetry in COBOL is not fun. Ditto for playing golf. Though its English-like syntax should help in writing poetry, being developed by the US Department of Defense, and heavily used in business, finance and administration, puts a bit of a crimp on having fun. Having said that, Larry's quote above does appear to have provoked a COBOL poem! grinder highlights COBOL's breathtaking verbosity in his classic A++:
When forced to use COBOL on an IBM mainframe back in the 1980s, I remember being appalled by its oppressive verbosity ... and shocked to learn that there was no such thing as a local variable! Though I enjoyed playing golf in PHP -- due to its many quirks, inconsistencies and bugs -- I was appalled by its seemingly random, ad hoc design (as detailed in the references below). Oh, and I also hate seeing a "small" Unix shell script grow into a 5000-line, unmaintainable monster. To avoid this, write all non-trivial scripts in Perl to begin with.
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