Which is the worst programming Language?

[DEATH eVADER]

Well I've just finished my course work that has to be handed in tomorrow morning before 9:00. This happens to be Assembler language, (AKA the dumbest f**king code on the planet) and so those easy-to-remember tags that you use in C++ don't exist. There is a method of using specific code, but its hard to remember. Thankfully, the majority of the code is a copy-and-paste job which can be repeated.

In Borland TASM (i.e. the code I'm working with), specific code comes in the form of 0ffh, 0016h, etc. The most difficult part is remembering what these tags do, the second hardest thing to do is to make sure your code is intact. The lack of colour coding makes it difficult to spot where the code is going.

So, what is the hardest code you have ever worked with?

In order of the hardest first, mine is:
-Assember
-C++
-XHTML
-HTML

 

[bryanf445]

i know nothing about computer launguage but ill take your word for it and say assembly

 

[Vegeta897]

I don't really have first hand experience with all of those, I know C and C++ are good, and I've used HTML myself and it's fairly straightforward, so I voted Java for some reason :O
But that's probably due to the fact that I just don't like Java in the first place, so I assume its coding is bad
*Hides from Ikky*

 

[DEATH eVADER]

i know nothing about computer launguage but ill take your word for it and say assembly

I would of put C++ at the top, but because the environment for using assembly, Dos Edit or Windows Notepad (Take your pick), is not user friendly, it just waste time. Several times, I had to print out the code just to make out which code was going to where. At least C++ is colour-coded

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Delphi is.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Delphi is.

What is Delphi used for? I've never come across it.

 

[Steven]

Well I know C++, XHTML and HTML. C++ get's the point from me.

 

[Evo]

VB, maybe cos we didn't learn much about it, but i hate it

 

[bryanf445]

hmm if you end up majoring in something for computers in college, will you have to know some of these launguages before you learn them in your studies?

 

[Steven]

hmm if you end up majoring in something for computers in college, will you have to know some of these launguages before you learn them in your studies?

I believe you have to know one or two.

 

[Vegeta897]

VB, maybe cos we didn't learn much about it, but i hate it

Heh, that's the easiest language I've ever used. I love it

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

VB, maybe cos we didn't learn much about it, but i hate it

VB is hella cool for quick forms or calculators for math problems.

 

[eriknba]

ok, if ur voting for assembly just because the first guy said so, ur full of crap. the "hardest" couldn't possibly be assembly, since theres only a total of 16 commands! i mean come on, c++ itself has many, many times more than that. it just takes longer to code, and yes, harder to break down harder algorithims

 

[nutcrackr]

I've used all of those except for Assembly and while java is messy it's been forced down my throat so I've come to like it somehow.

 

[Gorgon]

Assembly Language
then
c
c++

 

[Glirk Dient]

brain****

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
Also...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain**** but you gotta add you know instead of the ****'s.

 

[Murray_H]

Probably Japanese

 

[Vegeta897]

brain****

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
Also...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain**** but you gotta add you know instead of the ****'s.

That's awesome

 

[Septih]

ok, if ur voting for assembly just because the first guy said so, ur full of crap. the "hardest" couldn't possibly be assembly, since theres only a total of 16 commands! i mean come on, c++ itself has many, many times more than that. it just takes longer to code, and yes, harder to break down harder algorithims

ok, you know hardly anything about assembly.

*looks at sample 1980's CPU instruction set* oo nearly 100 different commands!

Assembly is a bloody hard language if you don't know what you're doing, but if you have a rough idea, it is very versatile.

The only other languages i've studied in detail are visual basic, php and i'm currently doing java(c++ and perl next year). of those:

PHP is piss easy and not that relevant to proper coding, but it is a good primer for java and c based languages as long as you don't get too set in bad habits from it. PHP is also kinda restricted in it's abilities as a language.

VB is a lovely language for beginners, interface design is so simple and assigning code to actions is really easy. However as you get more complex, VB gets tedious and hard to keep track of. I had 90 pages of code for my project last year and it was just too annoying to want to complete. I also find the structure of the language rather bad(curly braces ftw!).

Java is interesting so far, I like the object orientated approach, but it is quite strict compared to the other languages i've used. That said i'm getting more used to the syntax. It's quite a refreshing change from vb.

Based on you asking for the hardest, i'd say Java, even though i prefer it. I would say PHP is the worst overall.

Oh and HTML and CSS are scripting languages, not programming

 

[Dog--]

I don't know anything on this either, so I guessed HTML... was I ever off.. I'm the only one who voted it..

 

[Ikerous]

HTML (I know people still use it, so I included it)

Don't more ppl use html than any of those other languages? :/

And any language you can't write soley in notepad suck.
batch programming ftw!

 

[Hazar]

prolly machine code although I've never coded before

 

[Zeus]

html is the worst programming language (not in terms of difficulty). Its real easy but encourages unorganized, and sloppy code practice. I have dabbled in c++ a bit, not enough to become a pro at it but to get some basic concepts and I must say its decent. any of the others on that list (besides xhtml/css and others I mentioned) I havent tried yet..so I cant make any detirminations on them

 

[dfc05]

I've tried some C++ and Java, and a little bit of VB, and some HTML and web programming stuff like ASP and XML, all of which were pretty fun....

and then there was Visual Dataflex. It's a database programming language that nobody really uses, except for this place I worked at last summer. I guess it was alright after I got used to it, but they forced you to code using words. Like, instead of saying i=1, you'd have to say Move 1 to i. Annoying.

SQL was pretty bad too. By itself, you couldn't do much, and then there was Transact-SQL which actually allowed you to make variables!!! But there was some weird crap going on with it, especially when you wanted to use variables in other functions and stuff. Sometimes they had issues with you directly using the variable name in a command, but they also had this way to build up a string, and then execute what the string said. So I ended up doing this tedious work-around where I would have to make a string with the variable name in it and then execute that instead of just writing the darn command. You also had to keep up with how many transactions were going on and how to roll them back and stuff. Inner joins and unions were confusing.

 

[FoB_Ed]

Qbasic

 

[Shamrock]

i know nothing about computer launguage but ill take your word for it and say assembly

People like you make me sick.

 

[Glirk Dient]

brain****

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
Also...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain**** but you gotta add you know instead of the ****'s.

QFE

 

[OvA]

I program in binary. I also drink 100% pure Ethanol.

 

[Adabiviak]

...don't suppose I hate any of them, but I'm surprised at the amount of votes against assembly - assembly rules! (in fact, if you're familiar with 8051, I've a question for you).

 

[15357]

Assembly = teh EVIL!

 

[sinkoman]

In order of the hardest first, mine is:
-Assember
-C++
-XHTML
-HTML

Are you ****ing kidding me?

xHTML 1.0 has to be the funnest shit in the entire world!

Once you've made a webpage that not only looks good and is functional, but follows the xHTML strict DTD, it's so much fun looking at the source of all these big shot pages like newgrounds.com and going, "Haha, stupid mother****ers. My site conscribes to the strict DTD, and is writen in only two screens of markup. Yours on the other hand, is a stupid ****ing mess of code spanning the bible!"

God, you can't believe how hard I laughed when I saw the code behind NG.com. They're using blank div cells to push other div cells into position. For ****s sake, you may as well use a ****ing table hack! Does their coder not realise that you can dynamically position css ellements?

Oh, and don't get me started on table hacks. All that effort for a jumbled, unreadable mess of code that self destructs when you sneeze (IE the whole shebang needs to be recoded when you put an image into one of the cells).

And technically, HTML is a markup language. It's completely static (not counting pages coded liquidly, as that's user input. Or Javascript. That shit is the devil)

So if HTML WERE considered a "programming" language, it'd be the equivalent of etching C++ onto a rock.

 

[carrera]

well i've only programmed in c++ and assembly. so assembly, mainly because i never got into it

 

[VictimOfScience]

Machine code. That's the toughest. ASM is for humans. The first few Ultimas were written entirely in machine code...Lord British is a god among men. :thumbs:

As for the others, Perl sucks and I hate Java. VB.NET is my favorite out of all of them right now. HTML, like Sinkoman said, isn't a programming language, so its pretty amusing when html people say they're "coders."

 

[mortiz]

Visual Basic easily (though for some odd reason you didn't include it!), and HTML isn't technically a programming language, it's a mark-up language.

 

[sHaDdoW]

I program microprocessors at college using assembly, and jesus christ, Its really hard to make sense of it. Its such a low level language.

And to acutally to get it, to do something decent, takes pages of code.

You have to be a true nerd, to make yourself learn it.

Different processors have different commmands. eurgh

 

[Shodan]

Java.

Go to hell Java.

 

[ZeeM]

Obviously the dumbest must be BASIC (why isn't it in the list?).
I don't really understand why ppl think asm is the worst. This is how our computers work after all. If you don't learn assembly, you'll never learn how's the computer you program at working, you'll never know what's happening under the hood. After you learn it, it will be much easier to understand other languages. So that's why asm>all.
It's just kind of hard to write big applications but at least you DO get that nice feeling that YOU DID that yourself and didn't use any libraries that someone else wrote for you (like MFC with c++). So there's no poing saying that asm is the worst and syntax coloring doesn't have to with the language at all, it has to do with the IDE you write your code. There are plenty of ASM IDEs with syntax coloring and other goodies. I use RadASM, check it out.

The best language isn't all about easiest syntax (should we all program with LOGO maybe?) but about what it offers Features VS Easy syntax. You can't have both.

 

[sHaDdoW]

Obviously the dumbest must be BASIC (why isn't it in the list?).
I don't really understand why ppl think asm is the worst. This is how our computers work after all. If you don't learn assembly, you'll never learn how's the computer you program at working, you'll never know what's happening under the hood. After you learn it, it will be much easier to understand other languages. So that's why asm>all.
It's just kind of hard to write big applications but at least you DO get that nice feeling that YOU DID that yourself and didn't use any libraries that someone else wrote for you (like MFC with c++). So there's no poing saying that asm is the worst and syntax coloring doesn't have to with the language at all, it has to do with the IDE you write your code. There are plenty of ASM IDEs with syntax coloring and other goodies. I use RadASM, check it out.

The best language isn't all about easiest syntax (should we all program with LOGO maybe?) but about what it offers Features VS Easy syntax. You can't have both.

I've learned it, I don't like it, because its too hard to remember >_<.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

VB, roofle.

 

[kirovman]

I'm learning C++ at work now, that's pretty tricky, but that's probably just because I've jumped right in at the deep end.

VB was really easy, I learnt that in January, and I'm pretty good at using it. VB is more of a glue than a language though.

C isn't that bad to learn either.