programming languages

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I find this language easy to prototype in

Based on responses from 2605 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I find this language easy to prototype in" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Python
  2. Ruby
  3. Clojure
  4. Scheme
  5. Common Lisp
  6. O'Caml
  7. Factor
  8. Scala
  9. Haskell
  10. Perl

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Cobol
  3. Fortran
  4. C
  5. Ada
  6. Pascal
  7. C++
  8. Objective C
  9. Java
  10. J

Most similar to

  1. This language is very flexible
  2. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  3. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  4. This is a high level language
  5. This language is expressive

Most dissimilar from

  1. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  2. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  3. This is a low level language
  4. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  5. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language

All items

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