As expected, hatred is roughly proportional to popularity. Bjarne was right when he said "There are only two kinds of programming language: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

Actually if we compare the Stack Exchange hatred list against the TIOBE index, then we can correct for the amount of 'expected' hatred (the kind that is proportional with usage)

VBScript: Hated much more than expected

PHP: Hated more than expected

Java: Hated less than expected

Visual Basic: Hated slightly more than expected

ColdFusion: Hated much more than expected

C++: Hated much less than expected

Disclaimer, those are a bunch of vague guesses based on two sources of questionable data.

I have two guesses for why C++ garners less hatred than expected:

(1) Lots of people who would have been writing C++ 5-10 years ago have moved over to Java.

(2) Lots of people writing C++ are actually writing C with classes.

Oddly, c# isn't hated at all...

Matlab. That language is what I was "encouraged" to write the bulk of my thesis in. It's essentially the VB of the scientific community. Such a horrible language with a horrible runtime and an unbelievably limited vector syntax considering that is all it was designed for.

I was gonna write something about how matlab isn't really that bad. And then I thought about how it's impossible to do anything with strings, y(0)=1; gives an error, variables from inside a function aren't stored in the workspace even if they are called from the workspace (among other stupid crap with functions), and God help your soul if you ever type the word "classdef" into an m-file. It's a good thing some of the built in functions are really powerful.

This is true. The most abhorrent fact is that [the version I used some six years ago] it would parse line by line while executing. So you would only get errors if the line actually got executed. The whole idea of line-based syntaxes is dubious in my view, but this makes it even worse.

MATLAB is a language? ;-)

Any language that is stuck in a non-text, non-diff-compatible, or where the program is combined in the same binary file with data.

Most commonly, this is found in the files generated by desktop database products such as MS Access, Filemaker, etc.

It's a program maintenance nightmare.

Please fix the link. It is a bit disingenuous to link to the subsection fragment for Java when there's stuff above it.

Best criticism of Python: Any language that has whitespace as tokens needs to die. Xepoch Sep 17 at 17:51

I hate Java it has the following reasons:

- it turns programming into a typefest

- it assumes that a project has an architect and that architect can plan everything right from the start

- it's slow

- it's highly inconsistent, int v.s. Integer

- it pretends to be strongly typed, still you get a bundle of runtime errors, that it can't protect you from, also you have the Object....

I hate C# because, it's: Java + bloat.