Based on responses from 2598 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does" describes different programming languages.
It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
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Most similar to
- Code written in this language is very readable
- This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
- This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
- This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity
- I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
Most dissimilar from
- This language is unusually bad for beginners
- This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
- There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
- Writing code in this language is a lot of work
- Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
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- Python
- F#
- Ruby
- Go
- Smalltalk
- C#
- Mathematica
- Clojure
- Io
- Standard ML
- Lua
- Haskell
- Java
- Eiffel
- ActionScript
- O'Caml
- Scala
- REBOL
- Ada
- Mozart-Oz
- Pascal
- Scheme
- Matlab
- Groovy
- Cobol
- Visual Basic
- Agda
- Delphi
- Objective C
- ELisp
- Factor
- R
- Haxe
- Javascript
- D
- Shell
- Common Lisp
- TCL
- J
- PHP
- Erlang
- C
- Fortran
- AWK
- Prolog
- Coq
- Perl
- APL
- Forth
- C++
- Assembler