programming languages

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I would use this language for a desktop GUI project

Based on responses from 2612 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I would use this language for a desktop GUI project" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. C#
  2. Delphi
  3. Objective C
  4. Scala
  5. Java
  6. Visual Basic
  7. F#
  8. Python
  9. Clojure
  10. Ruby

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Prolog
  3. AWK
  4. Fortran
  5. PHP
  6. Shell
  7. R
  8. ELisp
  9. APL
  10. Coq

Most similar to

  1. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  2. There are many good tools for this language
  3. I would use this language for mobile applications
  4. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  5. This language is best for very large projects

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. This language has a niche in which it is great
  3. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  4. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  5. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer

All items

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