Based on responses from 2328 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language" describes different programming languages.
I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
Most similar to
- I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
- The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
- I often get angry when writing code in this language
- Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
- Code written in this language tends to be verbose
Most dissimilar from
- I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
- I use this language out of choice
- Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
- This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
- If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
All items
- Cobol
- Visual Basic
- PHP
- Fortran
- Pascal
- Delphi
- TCL
- Perl
- AWK
- Groovy
- Java
- Io
- Objective C
- ActionScript
- REBOL
- Mozart-Oz
- Mathematica
- Factor
- Go
- R
- Javascript
- J
- Matlab
- Haxe
- Ada
- Prolog
- Standard ML
- C#
- Shell
- Smalltalk
- Coq
- D
- Eiffel
- APL
- Assembler
- ELisp
- C++
- Common Lisp
- Ruby
- Forth
- Lua
- C
- Erlang
- Scala
- Scheme
- Python
- F#
- Haskell
- Clojure
- O'Caml