{"id":12958,"date":"2015-11-30T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12958"},"modified":"2015-11-30T10:11:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:11:44","slug":"favorite-terrible-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/favorite-terrible-programming-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Terrible Programming Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fogus\/status\/667002704791773184\">Fogus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fogus\/status\/667002704791773184\">\n<p>Write about your favorite programming language honestly, but make it sound terrible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpweiher\/status\/667128351010783234\">Marcel Weiher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpweiher\/status\/667128351010783234\"><p>Objective-C is a car crash of Smalltalk and C, combining the type-safety of the former with the memory-safety of the latter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/667166488051118080\">David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/667166488051118080\"><p>[Objective-C is] An attempt to graft an old children&rsquo;s language onto the source of 97% of all security bugs and crashes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/667166345692188674\">David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/667166345692188674\"><p>[Swift is] A forward-looking\/past-looking scripting\/applications\/systems language with no source or link-time compatibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jckarter\/status\/667167601601089537\">Joe Groff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jckarter\/status\/667167601601089537\"><p>or working compiler<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benstiglitz\/status\/667166884215713792\">Benjamin Stiglitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benstiglitz\/status\/667166884215713792\"><p>[Forth has] No variables, no basic blocks, no syntax, no compiler, doesn&rsquo;t understand strings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/667166813617127426\">David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Catfish_Man\/status\/667166813617127426\"><p>&ldquo;Our codebase was unmaintainable, so rather than refactor, we wrote a new language to rewrite it in&rdquo; [Rust]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/launchz\/status\/667171205070217216\">Damien Sorresso<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/launchz\/status\/667171205070217216\"><p>A language that language nerds can&rsquo;t fathom the success of because its design was influenced by systems programmers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I presume he&rsquo;s referring to C.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fogus: Write about your favorite programming language honestly, but make it sound terrible. Marcel Weiher: Objective-C is a car crash of Smalltalk and C, combining the type-safety of the former with the memory-safety of the latter. 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