Based on responses from 2395 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has a very coherent design" describes different programming languages.
This language has a very coherent design
Bottom items
Most similar to
- This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
- I find code written in this language very elegant
- This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
- Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
- Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
Most dissimilar from
- The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
- This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
- I often get angry when writing code in this language
- There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
- Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
All items
- Coq
- Scheme
- Io
- Haskell
- Standard ML
- Lua
- Eiffel
- REBOL
- Smalltalk
- Clojure
- APL
- Prolog
- Forth
- Agda
- Factor
- Scala
- Erlang
- O'Caml
- Mozart-Oz
- Ada
- Common Lisp
- J
- F#
- Python
- D
- Pascal
- Mathematica
- Go
- C#
- Ruby
- Matlab
- Haxe
- C
- Java
- Cobol
- TCL
- R
- AWK
- ELisp
- Delphi
- Groovy
- Objective C
- Fortran
- Assembler
- Javascript
- C++
- Shell
- Perl
- PHP
- Visual Basic