C++ launched its community survey, too

[TheFlyingFiddle]

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 10:15:13 UTC, Zoadian wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 00:53:16 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
> wrote:
>> It should have gone to the Java developers - cause they 
>> deserved it.
>>
>> C++ is the worst thing to have ever come out of computer 
>> science!
>
> yes c++ is not the greatest language (thats why i use D). but 
> java is the worst language i've ever used.

My least preferredlanguage of all times would be Perl. With (PHP 
5.3) coming in at a close second :)

Perl is just... I get it, you can write somewhat nicer bash 
scripts in the language. But people... they just go with it and 
build these huge crazy systems that somehow 10+ years later 
become my problem. The designer of Perl was clearly insane. Let's 
store everything in fun global "invisible" variables, functions 
don't specify arguments... And lets have the first letter of the 
variable define how/what $, @, %, with fun auto conversions 
everywhere :D.

PHP is better but there is some really weird stuff in it. Of the 
top of my head is the auto type conversion system. This works, by 
design...

//PHP
$a = 5;
$b = $a * "10 trains";
echo $b; //$b is now 50... Fun and interesting stuff right there

Compared to them, programming in C++ or Java for that matter is 
like a dream. But when I can, I always use D. Mainly because 
unlike every other language, it has static introspection, ctfe 
and mixins. A whole new world of expressive power is gained by 
this. Only thing missing is the ability to do arbitrary system 
calls during compilation :D