Programming Languages Criticisms

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I once had a college professor say something like, "Don't criticize a language for what it can't do, rather look at what it does well."

He explained this by saying that most languages were designed for a specific purpose, and tradeoffs are always made that cause some parts of a language to be bad at certain tasks.

Not sure if this is universally true, but I felt it was sound reasoning.

"PHP is Jewish language, developed by Israeli company with unclear agenda."

Stopped reading right there.

I even looked at the blame for that file, to see if it was added by saniv. It was, and it's stayed that way since initial commit in late 2013.

You may take it as a satirical piece, and read it only for the fun. :-)

But otherwise there won't be anything useful or real to get from it, unfortunately :-(

I was expecting actual constructive criticism, not rants.

Now, rants would be fine if they were true, but they aren't – lots of examples are just false.[0]

If they're not even rants, so then just satire remains, but when reading thru the repo it hits me that the satirical value, if any, is very small.

meh.

[0] e.g. it says that in Lua `nil + 1` is not allowed while `(not nil) + 1` is and yields 2. In reality, `(not nil) + 1` gives an "attempt to perform arithmetic on a boolean value" error.

https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks

It just have one criticism about Java. Bah. Can't trust this

The six C++ expressions listed are not equivalent. They have different types (try using them in sizeof(), or assigning them to something...)

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