Top 5 reasons in favor or against a programming language

Top 5 reasons why JavaScript is so popular

1. People have learned JavaScript at school or for their first private website, and want to continue using that skill for everything else to come.
2. See #1
3. See #1
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5. See #1

Top 5 reasons why people hate C++

1. They don’t know C++.
2. They are afraid of pointers.
3. They are afraid of pointers.
4. They are afraid of pointers.
5. They are ▓ of memory leaks.▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓

Top 5 reasons why big projects slowly move away from Java

1. JVM needs too much memory.
2. See #1
3. See #1
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9. See #1
10. Runtime.getRuntime().gc();

Top 5 reasons why Python is so insanely popular

1. Everyone else is using it.
2. Nobody cares about multithreading. (“Hey, today’s computers are fast anyway, right?”)
3. Kids today don’t remember source code structuring by indentation used in early programming languages like Cobol, Fortran or AS400, so they think it’s the new cool thing to create easy to read, structured source code. Here we go again … (“At least it is different from old school Java, so it must be a step forward, right?”)
4. import #1, #2, #3
5. import #1, #2, #3

Top 5 reasons why PHP still is so popular

1. sudo -u root “People are afraid that CGI might return.”
2. action=”1.cgi”
3. action=”1.cgi”
4. action=”1.cgi”
5. action=”1.cgi”

Top 5 reasons why people use Go

1. It was created by Google. Maybe when I apply for a job at Google, they check out my GitHub projects.
2. I ❤ Google
3. I ❤ Google
4. I ❤ Google
5. git push

Top 5 reasons why people are embarrassed to mention Bash

1. echo “Shell scripting is not real programming.” | tee 2. 3. 4. 5.

Top 5 reasons why CSS is considered a programming language

1. Who cares?

Top 5 reasons why people don’t even look at Perl anymore

5. programming style: two words
4. See #3
3. See #2
2. See #1
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