I have spoken with countless programmers in my life, and have found
that there are a few languages that are not only used, but loved.
Likewise, there are other languages that tend to be used (usually for
work), but are rarely ever loved. In between, are the languages that
people do not have strong feelings for either way, or the jury is still
deliberating on.
Loved Languages
C, Lisp,
Smalltalk, Python, Ruby, Perl (in the same way that Hilary Clinton is
loved), APL, Eiffel, Scheme, PHP
Un-Loved Languages
C++, Ada, Perl (in the same way that Hilary Clinton is hated),
Pascal, Delphi, COBOL, Fortran, VisualBasic, BASIC
That
Gray Area
Java, C#, Prolog, Javascript
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