programming languages

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This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces

Based on responses from 2298 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Clojure
  2. Smalltalk
  3. C#
  4. Haskell
  5. Eiffel
  6. F#
  7. Scala
  8. Python
  9. Java
  10. Ruby

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. AWK
  3. Shell
  4. PHP
  5. Forth
  6. Prolog
  7. Pascal
  8. APL
  9. Fortran
  10. Javascript

Most similar to

  1. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  2. This language is best for very large projects
  3. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  4. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  5. This language excels at concurrency

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  3. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  4. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  5. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years

All items

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