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This language is best for very small projects

Based on responses from 2437 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is best for very small projects" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Shell
  2. AWK
  3. Perl
  4. Ruby
  5. Python
  6. Io
  7. Factor
  8. TCL
  9. ELisp
  10. Matlab

Bottom items

  1. Cobol
  2. C++
  3. Java
  4. Erlang
  5. Ada
  6. Pascal
  7. Mozart-Oz
  8. Eiffel
  9. Fortran
  10. Objective C

Most similar to

  1. I would use this language for casual scripting
  2. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  3. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  4. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  5. Code written in this language tends to be terse

Most dissimilar from

  1. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  2. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  3. This language has a strong static type system
  4. This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
  5. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient

All items

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