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This language is unusually bad for beginners

Based on responses from 2539 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is unusually bad for beginners" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Assembler
  2. C++
  3. APL
  4. Perl
  5. Coq
  6. Prolog
  7. Fortran
  8. Agda
  9. C
  10. Objective C

Bottom items

  1. Python
  2. Lua
  3. Scheme
  4. Ruby
  5. Clojure
  6. Pascal
  7. Io
  8. Haxe
  9. Smalltalk
  10. Groovy

Most similar to

  1. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  2. This language has an annoying syntax
  3. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  4. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  5. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  2. This language is good for beginners
  3. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  4. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  5. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application

All items

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