programming languages

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Visual Basic

Based on 35527 responses from 3147 people, this is the picture we've built up of Visual Basic.

Most similar to...

  1. PHP
  2. Cobol
  3. Matlab
  4. Delphi
  5. Pascal

Most dissimilar from...

  1. Clojure
  2. Haskell
  3. Scala
  4. Erlang
  5. F#

All statements

  1. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  2. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  3. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  4. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  5. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  6. This language is likely to be a passing fad
  7. This language has an annoying syntax
  8. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  9. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  10. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  11. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  12. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  13. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  14. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  15. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  16. This language is large
  17. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  18. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  19. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  20. This language is good for beginners
  21. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  22. This is a high level language
  23. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  24. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  25. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  26. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  27. I would use this language for writing embedded programs
  28. This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
  29. Code written in this language is very readable
  30. This language is best for very small projects
  31. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  32. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  33. This language has a strong static type system
  34. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  35. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  36. This is a mainstream language
  37. I find this language easy to prototype in
  38. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  39. I know many other people who use this language
  40. If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
  41. There are many good tools for this language
  42. It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
  43. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  44. I would use this language for casual scripting
  45. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  46. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  47. This language has a very dogmatic community
  48. This language is well documented
  49. I know this language well
  50. Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
  51. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  52. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  53. This is a low level language
  54. When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
  55. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  56. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  57. This language excels at text processing
  58. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  59. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  60. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  61. This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
  62. I use many applications written in this language
  63. This language is best for very large projects
  64. I regularly use this language
  65. This language has a niche in which it is great
  66. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  67. This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity
  68. This language is minimal
  69. I would use this language for a web project
  70. Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
  71. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  72. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  73. This language is expressive
  74. I would use this language for mobile applications
  75. I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
  76. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  77. I usually use this language on solo projects
  78. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  79. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
  80. This language has a high quality implementation
  81. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  82. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  83. This language is likely to be around for a very long time
  84. This language excels at concurrency
  85. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  86. I would use this language for writing server programs
  87. Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
  88. This language has a very coherent design
  89. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  90. This language is good for numeric computing
  91. This language has a good community
  92. This language is good for scientific computing
  93. This language is very flexible
  94. This language is good for distributed computing
  95. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
  96. I would use this language to write a command-line app
  97. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  98. I would list this language on my resume
  99. I use this language out of choice
  100. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  101. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  102. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  103. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  104. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  105. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  106. I enjoy using this language
  107. I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
  108. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  109. There are many good open-source tools for this language
  110. I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
  111. I find code written in this language very elegant