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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?
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Sunday November 05 2017, @12:15PM (2 children)
Lots of good stuff, and sensible opinions that I actually agree with, and then you fail to mention Fortran at all - such a disappointment.
You'll be telling us you eat quiche next.
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday November 05 2017, @01:30PM (1 child)
I think you are confusing Fortran (mostly a modern language, based on FORTRAN) with FORTRAN (an old language whose development essentially stopped in 77). Note that while Fortran compilers must accept FORTRAN code (except for removed features), Fortran code is written in a different form that is based on, but utterly incompatible with FORTRAN (even a Hello World program written in modern Fortran would not compile in FORTRAN).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Monday November 06 2017, @12:04PM
Nope, the confusion isn't there, I just naturally tend away from all caps on the internet.
Not entirely sure I've _ever_ used anything later than FORTRAN 77 and even then I am pretty sure there were options to turn it into 66 and compile DO loops the way God intended (not that I can remember the difference these days).