programming languages

Rank

This language is well documented

Based on responses from 2500 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language is well documented" describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Java
  2. Python
  3. C#
  4. C
  5. REBOL
  6. Ruby
  7. Haskell
  8. PHP
  9. Haxe
  10. C++

Bottom items

  1. D
  2. Assembler
  3. AWK
  4. Cobol
  5. Shell
  6. Forth
  7. Io
  8. Coq
  9. Pascal
  10. R

Most similar to

  1. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  2. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  3. There are many good tools for this language
  4. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  5. There are many good commercial tools for this language

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  2. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  3. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  4. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  5. This language is minimal

All items

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