[derbOac]

I had a similar thought as I was reading it. I remember a previous version of the survey, or of a similar survey, that was conducted differently. In that version people could indicate, in effect, that they neither loved or dreaded it, or both loved and dreaded it.

I remember in the survey reports it was discussed because there were some languages that were on both the "most loved" list and "most dreaded" lists. I want to say C and R (and maybe Haskell??) were examples of that but it's been awhile.

I'm not sure why they made them mutually exclusive, as it muddies things a bit.