programming languages

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There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language

Based on responses from 2486 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. C
  2. C++
  3. Python
  4. Java
  5. Perl
  6. Ruby
  7. PHP
  8. Javascript
  9. ELisp
  10. Shell

Bottom items

  1. Cobol
  2. APL
  3. Visual Basic
  4. Pascal
  5. Coq
  6. Assembler
  7. Mozart-Oz
  8. Forth
  9. Prolog
  10. Matlab

Most similar to

  1. I regularly use this language
  2. I use many applications written in this language
  3. There are many good open-source tools for this language
  4. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  5. I know this language well

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  3. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  4. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  5. I would use this language for writing embedded programs

All items

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