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。


当前回答

C

bit fields -- they aren't well specified by the language and how they work is compiler dependent and architecture dependent. It's often hard to find where a particular symbol is defined in a large mass of code, esp. if that symbol is produced by a macro. Which reminds me... The preprocessor is a rather ugly hack, amenable to all sorts of abuse. lack of standard sized integers (remedied by uint*_t lately, but there is lots and lots of old code floating around out there with custom typedefs or #defines for DWORD, WORD, BYTE, etc.) Lack of something akin to Perl's cpan.org (would love to be wrong about that one.)

编辑: 在考虑C的CPAN时,我想……我该怎么称呼这样的东西,然后想到了“ccan”,然后谷歌了一下,我看到了这个: http://ccan.ozlabs.org/

不过,它似乎还处于起步阶段。

其他回答

C

It's so flexible and powerful that it's really easy to write really awful, or downright dangerous code (or, if you prefer, "with great power comes great responsibility"). '=' for assignment, and '==' for equality; easy to confuse in 'if' statements. The implementation of a number of fundamental parts of the language are compiler-dependent; e.g. the size of the basic types, order of bits in bitfields, padding and byte order in unions. Bitfields aren't parameterisable (i.e. you can array of ints, but you can't have an array of bits). String handling could be improved.

我觉得最喜欢的语言是不可能选择的。动态类型和静态类型不能进行比较,所以我只列出我使用的是哪一种类型

C++:

Template metaprogramming syntax is ugly. An implicit ::value would make it much more concise ->. Why can't the compiler figure out that I'm doing a ptr.thing and just do -> for me? I hate whitespace. So the whole vector<vector<int>> has to be vector<vector<int> > makes me get the jitters and then I can't focus whenever I see that line of code and I end up trying to figure out a way to use int[][] or something Macros. I personally love the concept of macros. But with C++, I that the system is a hack I'm a hater of ;

Python:

字符串是不可变的。这样我就不能用string[4]="b" 通过引用隐式复制列表。哪个泄漏到[[0]*width]*height问题 缺少尾递归(每当我输入错误递归函数时,我必须安装IDLE以避免吐出1000条错误消息) 字典键不接受列表/字典 缺乏深度范围。当我做一个列表推导时,我不希望其中的变量影响到外部作用域

Perl

Mixed use of sigils my @array = ( 1, 2, 3 ); my $array = [ 4, 5, 6 ]; my $one = $array[0]; # not @array[0], you would get the length instead my $four = $array->[0]; # definitely not $array[0] my( $two, $three ) = @array[1,2]; my( $five, $six ) = @$array[1,2]; # coerce to array first my $length_a = @array; my $length_s = @$array; my $ref_a = \@array; my $ref_s = $array; For example none of these are the same: $array[0] # First element of @array @array[0] # Slice of only the First element of @array %array[0] # Syntax error $array->[0] # First element of an array referenced by $array @array->[0] # Deprecated first element of @array %array->[0] # Invalid reference $array{0} # Element of %array referenced by string '0' @array{0} # Slice of only one element of %array referenced by string '0' %array{0} # Syntax error $array->{0} # Element of a hash referenced by $array @array->{0} # Invalid reference %array->{0} # Deprecated Element of %array referenced by string '0' In Perl6 it is written: my @array = ( 1, 2, 3 ); my $array = [ 4, 5, 6 ]; my $one = @array[0]; my $four = $array[0]; # $array.[0] my( $two, $three ) = @array[1,2]; my( $five, $six ) = $array[1,2]; my $length_a = @array.length; my $length_s = $array.length; my $ref_a = @array; my $ref_s = $array; Lack of true OO package my_object; # fake constructor sub new{ bless {}, $_[0] } # fake properties/attributes sub var_a{ my $self = shift @_; $self->{'var_a'} = $_[0] if @_; $self->{'var_a'} } In Perl6 it is written: class Dog is Mammal { has $.name = "fido"; has $.tail is rw; has @.legs; has $!brain; method doit ($a, $b, $c) { ... } ... } Poorly designed regex features /(?=regexp)/; # look ahead /(?<=fixed-regexp)/; # look behind /(?!regexp)/; # negative look ahead /(?<!fixed-regexp)/; # negative look behind /(?>regexp)/; # independent sub expression /(capture)/; # simple capture /(?:don't capture)/; # non-capturing group /(?<name>regexp)/; # named capture /[A-Z]/; # character class /[^A-Z]/; # inverted character class # '-' would have to be the first or last element in # the character class to include it in the match # without escaping it /(?(condition)yes-regexp)/; /(?(condition)yes-regexp|no-regexp)/; /\b\s*\b/; # almost matches Perl6's <ws> /(?{ print "hi\n" })/; # run perl code In Perl6 it is written: / <?before pattern> /; # lookahead / <?after pattern> /; # lookbehind / regexp :: pattern /; # backtracking control / ( capture ) /; # simple capture / $<name>=[ regexp ] /; # named capture / [ don't capture ] /; # non-capturing group / <[A..Z]> /; # character class / <-[A..Z]> /; # inverted character class # you don't generally use '.' in a character class anyway / <ws> /; # Smart whitespace match / { say 'hi' } /; # run perl code Lack of multiple dispatch sub f( int $i ){ ... } # err sub f( float $i ){ ... } # err sub f($){ ... } # occasionally useful In Perl6 it is written: multi sub f( int $i ){ ... } multi sub f( num $i ){ ... } multi sub f( $i where $i == 0 ){ ... } multi sub f( $i ){ ... } # everything else Poor Operator overloading package my_object; use overload '+' => \&add, ... ; In Perl6 it is written: multi sub infix:<+> (Us $us, Them $them) | (Them $them, Us $us) { ... }

我可以为Python添加另一个:

给定一个列表l = [l1, l2,…], ln],那么repr(l) = [repr(l1), repr(l2),…, repr(ln)],但str(l) != [str(l1), str(l2),…, str(ln)] (str(l) = repr(l))。之所以这样做,是因为列表中可能有模糊的条目,如l = ["foo], [bar,", "],["], str(l)将返回"[foo], [bar,],[]",这“可能会使用户感到困惑”。然而,这使得str不可能仅用于转储数据,因为list杀死了“仅以可读格式转储数据”。Augh !

.NET框架(库)

嵌套类型很少使用(例如MessageBoxButton应该是MessageBox.Button) 可变结构体(Rect, Point) 系统名称空间中有太多东西 太多不同的平等概念(对象。等于,对象。ReferenceEquals, operator ==, operator !=, IComparable.CompareTo() == 0) 数组的成员是可变的,但长度是不变的。

还有一点:

XmlSerialization不适用于不可变类型