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Code written in this language tends to be terse

Based on responses from 2627 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "Code written in this language tends to be terse" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. J
  2. APL
  3. Haskell
  4. O'Caml
  5. Forth
  6. Clojure
  7. Perl
  8. AWK
  9. Ruby
  10. Scala

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Visual Basic
  3. Java
  4. Fortran
  5. C++
  6. PHP
  7. Ada
  8. Cobol
  9. Pascal
  10. Delphi

Most similar to

  1. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  2. This language is expressive
  3. I find code written in this language very elegant
  4. I find this language easy to prototype in
  5. I use this language out of choice

Most dissimilar from

  1. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  2. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  3. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  4. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  5. Writing code in this language is a lot of work

All items

  1. J
  2. APL
  3. Haskell
  4. O'Caml
  5. Forth
  6. Clojure
  7. Perl
  8. AWK
  9. Ruby
  10. Scala
  11. REBOL
  12. Scheme
  13. Standard ML
  14. Go
  15. Groovy
  16. Factor
  17. F#
  18. Common Lisp
  19. Agda
  20. Python
  21. Prolog
  22. R
  23. Io
  24. Lua
  25. Mathematica
  26. Coq
  27. Matlab
  28. Mozart-Oz
  29. Erlang
  30. Shell
  31. Haxe
  32. D
  33. TCL
  34. Smalltalk
  35. ELisp
  36. Javascript
  37. C
  38. Objective C
  39. Eiffel
  40. C#
  41. Delphi
  42. Pascal
  43. Cobol
  44. Ada
  45. PHP
  46. C++
  47. Fortran
  48. Java
  49. Visual Basic
  50. Assembler