What is the worst programming language?

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There is no general answer to this question.

While some languages might be better to solve a certain problem than others, every language has its field of application. Some languages might be educational (LOGO) or entertaining (LOLCODE) but that are applications anyway. Even languages like COBOL or FORTRAN still have their uses. The question is not "better or worse", it's "How does it fit my requirements".

That said, there are language features which are bad in a way which is hardly debatable. For a discussion of some of these see:

What is the worst programming language you ever worked with? (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961942/what-is-the-worst-programming-language-you-ever-worked-with)

Answer The only true contenders for the title of "worst" are those designed to be the worst, such as INTERCAL, Malbolge and Brainf*ck. INTERCAL, in particular, is not only a terrible language, but its compilers are also designed to be terrible. They're the only compilers I can think of that would pessimize, rather than optimize, programs. The terrible languages are often turing tarpits (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit), but one doesn't always imply the other.Answer

C# is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language that is just not meant to be used in serious enterprise applications.

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Those good old all-capital languages (FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL): programs written in them are practically unreadable.