Q programming language

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2012–2021), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Q programming language, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Everything is one-letter and opposite of conventions, so code is hard to read and search2021-12-30
Error messages are cryptic one-letter codes with no words or pointing to the error2019-12-02
No beginner documentation, so syntax and semantics like ':' are hard to learn2018-04-15
Cryptic one or two character operators make it impossible to tell evaluation order2017-12-13
Verbose naming and indentation make programs hard to read and follow2017-01-26
Interpreter gives cryptic single-character error messages, hard to diagnose problems2012-06-18