Based on responses from 2593 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is very flexible" describes different programming languages.
This language is very flexible
Most similar to
- This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
- I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
- I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
- I find this language easy to prototype in
- This language is expressive
Most dissimilar from
- Writing code in this language is a lot of work
- This language has an annoying syntax
- The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
- Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
- I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
All items
- Common Lisp
- Clojure
- Ruby
- Scala
- Scheme
- Io
- Python
- Perl
- F#
- Smalltalk
- Groovy
- Lua
- Factor
- Mozart-Oz
- REBOL
- Javascript
- Haskell
- Agda
- Go
- Forth
- O'Caml
- Haxe
- ActionScript
- ELisp
- TCL
- C++
- Mathematica
- D
- C#
- J
- Standard ML
- APL
- R
- Eiffel
- Erlang
- Objective C
- C
- PHP
- Java
- Ada
- Shell
- Delphi
- Prolog
- Coq
- Matlab
- Assembler
- AWK
- Visual Basic
- Pascal
- Fortran
- Cobol