最近Stack Overflow上有一群讨厌perl的人,所以我想我应该把我的“关于你最喜欢的语言你讨厌的五件事”的问题带到Stack Overflow上。拿你最喜欢的语言来说,告诉我你讨厌它的五件事。这些可能只是让你烦恼的事情,承认的设计缺陷,公认的性能问题,或任何其他类别。你只需要讨厌它,它必须是你最喜欢的语言。
不要拿它和其他语言比较,也不要谈论你已经讨厌的语言。不要用你最喜欢的语言谈论你喜欢的事情。我只是想听到你讨厌但能容忍的东西,这样你就可以使用所有其他的东西,我想听到你希望别人使用的语言。
每当有人试图把他们最喜欢的语言强加给我时,我就会问这个问题,有时是面试问题。如果有人找不出他最喜欢的工具的5个缺点,那他对它还不够了解,不能提倡它,也不能利用它赚大钱。他还没有在足够多的不同情况下使用它来充分探索它。他把它作为一种文化或宗教来倡导,这意味着如果我不选择他最喜欢的技术,我就错了。
我不在乎你用什么语言。不想使用特定的语言?那就不要。你通过尽职调查做出了明智的选择,但仍然没有使用它?好吧。有时正确的答案是“你有一个强大的编程团队,有良好的实践和丰富的Bar经验。改成Foo是愚蠢的。”
This is a good question for code reviews too. People who really know a codebase will have all sorts of suggestions for it, and those who don't know it so well have non-specific complaints. I ask things like "If you could start over on this project, what would you do differently?" In this fantasy land, users and programmers get to complain about anything and everything they don't like. "I want a better interface", "I want to separate the model from the view", "I'd use this module instead of this other one", "I'd rename this set of methods", or whatever they really don't like about the current situation. That's how I get a handle on how much a particular developer knows about the codebase. It's also a clue about how much of the programmer's ego is tied up in what he's telling me.
憎恨并不是衡量人们了解多少的唯一尺度,但我发现它是一个相当不错的尺度。他们讨厌的事情也让我知道他们对这个话题的思考有多好。
C
No parametric polymorphism (i.e. C++ templates). It makes writing reusable data structures and algorithms a pain (and there's hardly any static checking). See for instance the comparator argument to qsort and bsearch: the comparator takes void pointers :(
No library of data structures. I really hate writing my own hash table. I also really hate scouring the web for a library of reusable data structures. Especially if it turns out to be incomplete.
Strings. Inefficient representation, unwieldy if you make it sane, too hard to safely input a string. No standard for snprintf. Too hard to create a format string with sprintf, then use that to create a string with sprintf again, in a safe way.
Only lexical macros. If different compilers expects function annotation in different places, I have to put the same HAS_NO_SIDE_EFFECTS in different places. Why can't I just grab the function, switch over the compiler type, and then insert it at the right place by a macro call?
No portable libraries for common functionality. For sockets and threading, I use SDL---a frigging game library. For .ini-style parsers, the only library I could find which was packaged for ubuntu, I posted on the daily wtf (it calculates an array of hash values, then does a linear scan through it...)
C++
Template syntax is heavy and unweildy. Let's see, for(map<string, int>::const_iterator it = mymap.begin(); it != mymap.end(); ++it).
Design errors in the STL. Should changing allocation strategy for your vector really change its type?
Overly complex type system. Type T1 has a convert-to-T2 method, and T2 has an implicit from-T1 constructor. Which is called? How does overloading, overriding and multiple inheritance interact? Poorly, I guess...
Incredibly long and unwieldy error messages from templates. You know what I mean...
References means you can't see output parameters at call sites. In C, you can guess what foo(bar, &baz) can and can't modify.
C#
c#最让人讨厌的是:
(1)事件具有对所有侦听器的强引用,从而防止了侦听事件的任何东西的垃圾收集。如果你想看到这造成的问题,只需在网上搜索所有试图通过创建某种“弱引用事件处理程序”来解决问题的人。
(2)在调用一个事件之前,需要检查它是否等于null,这似乎应该由语言来处理。
(3) XML序列化器无法读取/写入XML文件中的注释。在手工修改XML文件和用c#编写的工具修改XML文件的环境中,情况并不好。可以通过使用原始的XmlDocument来解决,但如果能够将其抽象到一个类中会更好。
(4)构建过程不允许您直接访问xsd文件之类的东西,相反,您需要一个中间步骤,即创建一个c#部分类。这也会导致XAML文件出现问题,有时需要重新构建两次才能使更改正确地通过。
(5)不支持CPU intrinsic,如MMX和SSE 1,2,3,4,因此这些有价值的CPU特性在运行c#应用程序时无法使用。
其他没有进入我的前5名:
(6)不能将字段标记为属性,所有属性必须从一开始就显式地实现:
目前有:
public class MyClass {
private int someInt;
public int SomeInt {
get {
return someInt;
}
set {
someInt = value;
}
}
}
想
public class MyClass {
[IsProperty(public, get, set)]
private int someInt;
}
(7)不支持多个返回值,例如:
public int, string, double MyFunction()
{
....
return x,y,z;
}
public void TestMyFunction()
{
int x, string y, double z = MyFunction();
}
(8)不支持协变返回类型
我对泛型实现有一些不满,但我就此打住。我认为c#是一种很棒的语言,可以完成所有的GUI、网络和配置管道,并且是我的首选语言,可以以一种可以长期支持的方式快速启动和运行。
Python:
我仍然是python的一般用户,所以我的抱怨可能只是知识的锁或误用。欢迎提出意见。我很喜欢这门语言。
Poor thread support and GIL. If you'd like to take use of multicore platform, most of the python programmers would probably recommend multiprocessing or some sort, don't use threading. It wouldn't give you the performance you are expecting.
property only for instance variable. _class_var = property(classmethod(some_method)) just wouldn't work. How can I get a property wrapped class variable?
no access control. All access controls are syntax mangling. Like private is __private, protect is _protected, etc... And hope that everyone programs python follows the naming convention. Come on, we can do better than that.
I agree the python philosophy of being simple and clear syntax but some simple and clear syntax not being supported seems lock of good judgement, in my opinion. Such as, a++, ++a, a-- and --a, self-de/increment, what's wrong with those? foo = (a > b ? a : b) unary operation, what's wrong with those? (I know py2.6 has something similar introduced, but given the massive support of almost every other language for those simple syntax, why reinventing the wheel? why not just follow the best practice? Shouldn't a good thing just keep in its good "form"?)
Program to interface. Python has no interface or abstract class concept (py3k has something called abc), everything is concrete. Providing an "interface" or "abstract" keyword to build class skeleton and guard class inheritance and extension wouldn't be a bad idea I think. It helps on top-down design. Currently, I just have to fill the each of methods with NotImplementedError, quite a tedious job.
I have to add this. version less than 3.x has str and unicode types. This is a true nightmare. It makes ascii and non-ascii/unicode mixing most likely to fail (bad, bad)
我看到人们抱怨速度。我不明白。它是一种解释语言,代码直到运行时才编译成机器代码,这就是它的本质。你不能比较解释语言和编译语言的速度。据我所知,在解释/脚本语言中,python并不慢。