Tuesday, October 15, 2013

PHP and Python: Most disliked and liked languages?

Though it may not convey a very strong message, programmers have voted PHP and Python as the most disliked and liked languages respectively. Most votes which are open for the public are easily biased by influence of popular voters. These kinds of polls are highly subjective and it has no use to argue and to reason out anything. Yet the poll has some interesting results to look around and may be you might reach on some important conclusions.    

The poll has some interesting results, for example I am surprised to see that some of the recent hot languages like Ruby fail to get into top net liked list. On the other hand I am also amazed to find Javascript in the list of dislikes. Also C++, though disliked by a large number of programmers, it still has some big fans. Here is the result of the poll and the link to source actual poll.

     Top five most liked programming languages
  1. Python by 2416 pts
  2. Ruby by 1252 pts
  3. C   by 1851 pts
  4. Javascript by 1768 pts
  5.  SQL by 1140 pts

     Top five most disliked programming languages
  1. PHP by 1909 pts
  2. Java by 1708 pts
  3. C++  by 1130 pts
  4. Javascript by 1115 pts
  5. VB by 1066 pts.

Taking a deeper look, we still have PHP and Python at the top of both lists. Beneath is top five liked and disliked programming languages based on net results.

    Top five most liked programming languages (based on net likes. i.e the likes minus the dislikes)
  1. Python by 2034 pts
  2. C by 1551 pts
  3. Go by 743 pts
  4. SQL by 692 pts
  5. Haskell by 679 pts

Top five most disliked programming languages (based on net dislikes. i.e the dislikes minus the likes)
  1. PHP by 1330 pts
  2. VB by 935 pts
  3. Java by 908 pts
  4. Javascript by 653 pts
  5. Action script by 653 pts.


Like I said in the beginning, this list may not infer so much. But the least you can do with it is use it in choosing what programming to learn next, or what programming to use for your next project. The more people are fond of a certain languages the more you are gonna find great guys to work together. For example am scared to hell to find out that people are bashing both PHP and Java; two of my priorities. So maybe, maybe I might consider Python for my next project. 

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