The Most WTF-y Programming Languages

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The Most WTF-y Programming Languages

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @08:45AM from the as-long-as-it's-functional dept.

itwbennett writes "A couple of years ago, developer Sammy Larbi undertook a project to identify which languages had the most instances of the string 'WTF' in their GitHub code repositories. At the time, Objective C topped the list. ITworld's Phil Johnson has updated Larbi's research using GitHub data from the last 21 months, but instead of screen-scraping GitHub search results as Larbi had done, he queried the GitHub Archive for stand-alone instances of 'WTF' in the comments attached to GitHub commits to weed out cases where the string 'WTF' was legitimately used in the code. The three most baffling languages for 2012/13: C++, Lua, and Scala. Objective C comes in at #16."

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Oblig.... by DougOtto · 2013-09-25 08:47 · Score: 5, Funny

WTF?

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LICENSE.txt by TeknoHog · 2013-09-25 08:54 · Score: 5, Funny

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, December 2004 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed. DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

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WTF by ArcadeMan · 2013-09-25 08:59 · Score: 3, Funny

Watchdog Timer Fault.

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Objective-C by Ukab+the+Great · 2013-09-25 09:02 · Score: 4, Funny

We Objective-C developers prefer more verbose WTF statements, such as
- (void)whatTheFuckAreYouDoing:(NSString *)wtf withThatAbsurdAlgorithm:(NSString *)algorithm thatOnlyOnePersonOnDevTeamUnderstands:(BOOL)doesHeReallyUnderstandIt;
Re:Visual Basic by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-25 09:05 · Score: 2, Funny

Its way, way, the people who use it. For some of our in house code, I've seen for a variable:

Select Case x
case 1
goto line1
end select
Select Case x
case 2
goto line2
end select
Line1:
bblah blah
goto line3
line2:
blah blah
goto line3
line3:
rest of program
I'm going to find out the best language... by ddd0004 · 2013-09-25 09:08 · Score: 5, Funny

by using the search term "l33t".
Re: One for one by jd2112 · 2013-09-25 09:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Everything written in PHP looks like it was written on PCP.

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Re:I guess they do not have much LISP code? by Darinbob · 2013-09-25 10:24 · Score: 3, Funny

(W (T (F)))
Re:Oh good grief. by ShanghaiBill · 2013-09-25 10:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Languages are irrelevant.
01010111 01010010 01001111 01001110 01000111 00100001
Re: One for one by datavirtue · 2013-09-25 11:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Seriously, PHP is the only "language" I can program in while intoxicated. It's actually fun when you have had a few whereas I cannot seem to do anything in other languages when I'm a little tipsy.

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Re:Oh good grief. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-25 11:25 · Score: 5, Funny

and even WHOSE