List programs are the potato chips of programming: snack food for the mind that tastes good, has virtually no nutritional value and is impossible to resist. No one can watch, or produce, just one.

NEW YORK — You'll know television's mania for lists has gotten completely out of hand when C-SPAN counts down the 100 greatest Senate filibusters. List programs are the potato chips of ...

NEW YORK — You’ll know television’s mania for lists has gotten completely out of hand when C-SPAN counts down the 100 greatest Senate filibusters.

One of the biggest programming languages has dropped out of the top three, according to one of the lists used to track coders' favourites.