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。
Python,:
No switch keyword. And NO, dictionary is not a replacement for it. Not even a bunch of elif statements.
Inconsistent line break handling. Why can I do:
test = (1,
2,
3)
And not:
from itertools import cycle,
islice,
izip
Why can't I do:
if stuff \
and foo \
or bar:
return "Formated string with %(arg)s" % \
{'arg': "bloody slash"}
without using slashes?
There is not one obvious and only one way to do it. Python fails on its motto just like Java failed on "Write once run anywhere".
# what somebody from an another language would do
if not test.has_key('foo'):
test['foo'] = 0
n = test['foo'] = test['foo'] + 1
vs
# what an agnostic beginer would do
try:
test['foo'] += 1
except KeyError:
test['foo'] = 1
n = test['foo']
vs
# what you end up after looking for dictionary default value in the python doc
test.setdefault('foo', 0)
n = test['foo'] = test['foo'] + 1
vs
# what I would do
n = test['foo'] = test.get('foo', 0) + 1
And the worst is that they don't do exactly the same thing. There are subtle differences.
Choice between spaces and tabs. There should be no choice. Pick on, set it in stone and stop fighting.
Why can you do that:
test = {}
test['foo'] = 0
but not:
test = []
test[] = 0
附注:" ".join(l)是优秀的人。不要抱怨它，这并不明显，但考虑到迭代器模式，这是正确的方法。
C#
1)缺乏为值类型编写泛型的实际能力。例如，任何白痴(好吧，大多数白痴)都可以编写一个例程，用c++计算int, float, double等列表的标准偏差，它写起来很简单，易于阅读，并作为快速的非泛型代码执行。我认为，如果你能用c#写一些东西，接近于达到这三个中的任何一个，而在其他两个上又不荒谬，你就是一个真正伟大的程序员。
2)协方差和反方差，尽管这被添加到4。
3)非常糟糕的LINQ文档(好吧，并不是语言的一部分)。
4)尝试使用foreach/迭代器，当我每次都想做同样的事情，除了上次略有不同(如连接一串字符串与逗号之间的单词和最后两个)。如果我用一个IEnumerable来写它，它很难写和读，而用一个for (int I =0 I <…)它并没有好到哪里去，而且效率更低。
5)我知道我会收到抱怨，但是缺少受控的例外。这并不需要像在java中那样实现(框架开发人员确实提出了一些很好的观点，为什么他们没有这样做)，但我很乐意看到编译器警告不喜欢受控异常的用户可以关闭。
