Programming Language Debates
Discussions center on complaints, flamewars, and biases against popular programming languages, frequently quoting Bjarne Stroustrup's remark that there are only two kinds: those people complain about and those nobody uses.
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What is it about programming that just causes people to constantly bash languages they don't use?
A language can't suck just because it isn't Haskell or ML.
Interesting to note how people without good programming languages rationalize things.
Don't blame bad tools on the language.
tldr: languages the author likes are good, languages the author doesn't like are bad.
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" --Bjarne Stroustrup
"There are two types of programming languages: those everyone complains about, and those nobody uses."
You're not your programming language. When people are expressing distaste about a language, it's (usually) not an attack towards its users.
It seems as though HN likes certain languages but gets pretty negative about others.
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrup