programming languages

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This is a high level language

Based on responses from 2661 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This is a high level language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Coq
  2. Mathematica
  3. Haskell
  4. F#
  5. Prolog
  6. Scala
  7. Smalltalk
  8. Clojure
  9. O'Caml
  10. Common Lisp

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. Forth
  3. C
  4. Fortran
  5. C++
  6. Objective C
  7. D
  8. Pascal
  9. Shell
  10. TCL

Most similar to

  1. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  2. This language is expressive
  3. I enjoy using this language
  4. I find code written in this language very elegant
  5. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages

Most dissimilar from

  1. This is a low level language
  2. There is a lot of accidental complexity 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. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  5. I often get angry when writing code in this language

All items

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