What do you HATE in Computing?

and why?
I'll start,


C++, shit confusing language full of crap. dumb kids like it and do half arsed jobs of difficult tasks without understanding what they're doing with it. Dealing with C++ someone else wrote is fucking horrendus too.

Java hatred, Stop being a fucking idiot java is useful at times. Why is it still cool to hate java?

Python, ONE WORD, FORCED INDENTATION OF THE CODE, THREAD OVER.

is there any science in that book dealing with the advantages/disadvantages of modal and hold-it-down-the-entire-damn-time interfaces?

Hell yes. It's been experimentally proven that sustaining an action WILL NOT be forgotten by the operator. The benefit of this technique is that the user doesn't have to remember the current state of the application when invoking a command. The same action WILL ALWAYS produce the same perceived result.

In general usage, modal interfaces should only be used for setting configurations that don't change very often. Examples would be for a light switch, or setting an airplane's throttle value or cruising along a highway on cruise control.

For situations where an object state is changed more often, hold-it-down-the-entire-damn-time interfaces (aka. quasimodes) are far superior. You wouldn't want to drive your car in the city or around the town in cruise control. There are so many examples on the computer for unnecessary modality. One would be saving files - there shouldn't be any need to save files these days as the computer should do it automatically.