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I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language

Based on responses from 1693 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Coq
  2. Haskell
  3. Prolog
  4. Assembler
  5. Scala
  6. APL
  7. Common Lisp
  8. Agda
  9. C++
  10. Forth

Bottom items

  1. Visual Basic
  2. Pascal
  3. PHP
  4. Python
  5. Java
  6. Javascript
  7. Shell
  8. Lua
  9. C#
  10. Ruby

Most similar to

  1. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  2. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  3. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  4. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  5. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  2. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  3. This is a mainstream language
  4. I know many other people who use this language
  5. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"

All items

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