Based on responses from 2255 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else" describes different programming languages.
It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
Bottom items
Most similar to
- This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
- This language is best for very small projects
- I use many applications written in this language
- I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
- There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
Most dissimilar from
- This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
- If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
- Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
- When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
- This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
All items
- Perl
- C++
- Assembler
- Shell
- C
- Javascript
- Ruby
- TCL
- APL
- Forth
- PHP
- Objective C
- J
- Factor
- Common Lisp
- Matlab
- Io
- Mathematica
- Haxe
- ActionScript
- R
- Groovy
- Scala
- ELisp
- Scheme
- Lua
- AWK
- C#
- Clojure
- Mozart-Oz
- Smalltalk
- Eiffel
- Prolog
- D
- Python
- F#
- Coq
- Delphi
- Java
- Standard ML
- Cobol
- Visual Basic
- O'Caml
- Erlang
- Fortran
- Go
- Haskell
- Ada
- Pascal