programming languages

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This language is good for beginners

Based on responses from 2533 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is good for beginners" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Python
  2. Scheme
  3. Smalltalk
  4. Lua
  5. Pascal
  6. Ruby
  7. Javascript
  8. Standard ML
  9. Java
  10. Visual Basic

Bottom items

  1. Assembler
  2. C++
  3. R
  4. Cobol
  5. Fortran
  6. ELisp
  7. AWK
  8. Perl
  9. Go
  10. Shell

Most similar to

  1. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  2. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  3. Code written in this language is very readable
  4. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  5. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  2. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  3. This language has an annoying syntax
  4. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  5. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot

All items

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