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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 20:25:42 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-04-02, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> This[1] ranks 50 languages in terms of "I often get angry when writing
> code in this language"; Ada comes 13th.
>
> I particularly like the well-known Irish language O'Caml[2]!
>
> [1]
> http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/statements/i-often-get-angry-when-writing-code-in-this-langua
> [2] http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/o-caml

I couldn't help but notice that Ada is considered more annoying than C and
C is considered more annoying than Pascal. :-)

I wonder what they mean by "Assembler" ? That can cover a wide range of
architectures from the PIC18 (seriously lousy IMHO) to the elegant ones
such as ARM.

On a more serious note, it would be much more meaningful to have grouped
those languages by typical problem domains because comparing COBOL to
Javascript to Assembler doesn't really tell you anything.

Simon.

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