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		Retric on March 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What programming languages do people hate most? I hate Java. ~10 years ago I thought Java was an improvement on C++ at the cost of efficiency. Unfortunately so did the "enterprise" market which infected the stack and the ecosystem that evolves around it. Anyway, I don't think it's pointless to hate a language. By turning down projects that use Java my work life has improved significantly. Edit: I still use Java when writing tiny multi threaded projects that communicate over TCP/IP. But, IMO everything has it's nitch.

davidw on March 27, 2011 | [–]

> I still use Java when writing tiny multi threaded projects that communicate over TCP/IP

Sounds like a good reason to learn Erlang.

gumbo on March 27, 2011 | [–]

What you mean by infected? The enterprise has never been so awesome as it is now with j2ee6.

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