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I would use this language for casual scripting

Based on responses from 2583 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "I would use this language for casual scripting" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Python
  2. Shell
  3. Ruby
  4. Perl
  5. Lua
  6. AWK
  7. Io
  8. Factor
  9. Groovy
  10. Scala

Bottom items

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

Most similar to

  1. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  2. This language is best for very small projects
  3. This language excels at text processing
  4. This language is very flexible
  5. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later

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. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  4. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  5. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood

All items

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