programming languages

Rank

This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.

Based on responses from 1758 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This language matches it's problem domain particularly well." describes different programming languages.

Top items

  1. Mathematica
  2. Matlab
  3. Erlang
  4. Lua
  5. Prolog
  6. J
  7. AWK
  8. R
  9. Agda
  10. Haskell

Bottom items

  1. Pascal
  2. C++
  3. Java
  4. Factor
  5. Visual Basic
  6. PHP
  7. Javascript
  8. Objective C
  9. Scheme
  10. Fortran

Most similar to

  1. This language has a niche in which it is great
  2. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  3. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  4. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  5. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it

Most dissimilar from

  1. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  2. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  3. This language is well documented
  4. There are many good tools for this language
  5. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread

All items

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