Your most hated programming language(s)?

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Pointless question time, to waste time and avoid doing what I have to do! :p

What's your most hated programming language(s)? After working commercially with C# and C++ for the last 4-5 years I've gone back into education. They're making us use Delphi (Delphi 7) for a large database application, please kill me now. Everything seems like a constant battle with the language to trick it into doing what you need especially when working with dates and databases.

Now I need to hear other peoples horrible experiences to cheer me up :p.
 
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COBOL + vi - where even the spaces counted for something..

FORTRAN 77 GINO library, if you forget to initialise it with the right precision all your calculations felt it :D

6502. A, X and Y. That's all your registers and of those only A worked well..

MS Access - I wrote a commercial MS Access program to take a 7MB access database (fully rationalised) containing the electricity market data dictionary and auto generate C code that verified, read and wrote the data messages. MS Access - just kill me now.

Not ADA but the steps leading up to ADA.. our course had a three year mandatory requirement for formal specification, Z along with value passing CCS and formally proving Z & VCCS Z.. finally resulting in something that you turned into ADA..

Blackfin assembler.. for god sake take a page out of ARM assembler which is a masterclass in beauty.

I've moved and continue to put space between myself and coding.
 
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Java.

Well, not so much the language - but LET ME MAKE THE DAMN THING INTO A PLATFORM SPECIFIC EXECUTABLE. Ugh - jar files = death. Sometimes I want to ignore the portability of semi-compilation and just create seperate executables for different OSs.

Other than that, I like it though :-)
 
x86 Assembler - I know a lot of people love to get down to machine level but I find it quite tiresome. In my opinion there's no way you can justify spending time optmising code to save cycles on 3GHz processors. :o

*Waits for the barrage of indignant X86 ASM lovers' remarks
 
MikeHunt79 said:
I would say x86 ASM, simply because it takes so many lines of code to do the tiniest little thing...
Click to expand...

Moreover I'd specify the AT&T syntax of x86 assembly because it seems to serve no purpose other than to render code unreadable. That said my assembly programming experience is about as in-depth as writing a couple of project euler challenges in.

Edit: Also I'm not a fan of actionscript.
 
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Delphi. Nothing to do with it's syntax, rather the VCL and the IDE. Unfortunately, some of us use it on a near full time basis. :(
 
Cobol. It's what I learned in school and college and by the time I finished I never wanted to program anything ever again EVER!

....but I recently picked up a book on C# and installed Visual Studio Express and my interest is peeking again, given a bit of time and will power I might actually get into coding again.
 
Haven't yet used anything that I hate.

There's probably a distinction here between languages that flat out suck (or are laborious) and those that are just difficult.
 
RPG, possibly the most obnoxious language on this earth. Coupled with a green screen environment and attempting to debug older fixed format versions, it would quickly send you mental.
 
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