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posted by mrpg on Sunday November 05 2017, @06:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the in-my-days-it-was-cobol dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

On Stack Overflow Jobs, you can create your own Developer Story to showcase your achievements and advance your career. One option you have when creating a Developer Story is to add tags you would like to work with or would not like to work with:

[...] The most disliked languages, by a fairly large margin, are Perl, Delphi, and VBA. They're followed by PHP, Objective-C, Coffeescript, and Ruby. On our team we're certainly happy to see that R is the least disliked programming language, relative to the number of people who liked it.

[...] Generally there is a relationship between a tag's growth and how often it's disliked. Almost everything disliked by more than 3% of stories mentioning it is shrinking in Stack Overflow traffic (except for the quite polarizing VBA, which is steady or slightly growing). And the least-disliked tags— R, Rust, Typescript and Kotlin— are all among the fast-growing tags (Typescript and Kotlin growing so quickly they had to be truncated in the plot).

Hate away, guys, you just make my skills and willingness to write perl more valuable.

Source: What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday November 05 2017, @09:07AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 05 2017, @09:07AM (#592434) Journal

    Sure, you can program all kinds of things in it, but so you can in MS Excel.

    Teeheeee... a bestseller at the horizon... "Quantum computing in Excel for dummies"

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 05 2017, @03:33PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 05 2017, @03:33PM (#592533) Homepage

    Your joke would be funny if it weren't mostly true. [amazon.com]

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by fishybell on Sunday November 05 2017, @05:04PM

      by fishybell (3156) on Sunday November 05 2017, @05:04PM (#592563)

      Laugh if you will, but spreadsheet programming — Excel, LibreOffice, etc. — does provide a very interesting programming paradigm.

      What other language has all of its variables organized in a four dimensional array (rows, columns, sheets, file)? What other language has all of its variables also be commands? If you're working entirely with grid-based data, working as a spreadsheet can the quickest way to solve a task, and often times the quickest way to solve the task correctly is the correct path.

      While it's not the right tool for the job for essentially all programming tasks, it is the right tool for some.