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There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language

Based on responses from 2520 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. C++
  2. Assembler
  3. C
  4. Java
  5. Perl
  6. PHP
  7. Shell
  8. TCL
  9. Objective C
  10. Ada

Bottom items

  1. Standard ML
  2. Scheme
  3. Haskell
  4. Clojure
  5. Python
  6. Lua
  7. Smalltalk
  8. Common Lisp
  9. Ruby
  10. O'Caml

Most similar to

  1. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  2. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  3. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  4. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  5. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is expressive
  2. I use this language out of choice
  3. This is a high level language
  4. I find code written in this language very elegant
  5. This language excels at symbolic manipulation

All items

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