programming languages

Rank

I use this language out of choice

Based on responses from 2347 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I use this language out of choice" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Scala
  2. J
  3. Clojure
  4. Haskell
  5. Ruby
  6. Python
  7. F#
  8. Smalltalk
  9. Erlang
  10. O'Caml

Bottom items

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

Most similar to

  1. I enjoy using this language
  2. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  3. This language is expressive
  4. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  5. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code

Most dissimilar from

  1. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  2. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  3. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  4. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  5. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer

All items

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