programming languages

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This is a mainstream language

Based on responses from 1749 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This is a mainstream language" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Java
  2. C++
  3. C#
  4. C
  5. Javascript
  6. PHP
  7. Python
  8. Visual Basic
  9. Ruby
  10. Agda

Bottom items

  1. Forth
  2. Prolog
  3. Standard ML
  4. Scheme
  5. Erlang
  6. O'Caml
  7. Haskell
  8. Io
  9. ELisp
  10. APL

Most similar to

  1. I know many other people who use this language
  2. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  3. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  4. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  5. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"

Most dissimilar from

  1. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  2. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  3. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  4. This language has a very coherent design
  5. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language

All items

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