What are five things you hate about your favorite language? [closed]

Solution 1:

Wow, I'm surprised that SQL hasn't made it up here yet. Guess that means nobody loves it :)

• Inconsistent syntax across implementations
• Subtle code differences can have massive performance ramifications for seemingly obscure reasons
• Poor support for text manipulation
• Easy cost of entry but steep learning curve towards mastering the language
• Minimal standardization across the community for best practices, this includes syntax style.

...And a few bonus reasons to hate it, at no extra charge

• the WHERE clause goes last, making it easy to prematurely execute an UPDATE or DELETE, destroying the whole table. Instead, the WHERE should go somewhere up front.
• It's difficult to implement relational division.
• I can set a value to NULL, but I can't test it for equality with NULL. I can check IS NULL, but that just complicates code -- needlessly so, in my opinion.
• Why do we need to completely respecify the formula for a GROUPed column, rather than setting an alias on the column and then GROUP BY the alias (or column index as with SORT)?

Solution 2:

Five things I hate about Java:

• No first-class functions.
• No type inference.
• Lack of sane defaults in eg graphics.
• NullPointerException not containing more information about what is null.
• The proliferation of pointlessly "configurable" frameworks/service provider interfaces/factory classes/dependency injection systems. The configurability is almost never used, DRY is violated egregiously, and code quadruples in size and halves in legibility.

I know, I should check out Scala.