C

Based on 129749 responses from 10348 people, we've built up the following picture of C

Most dissimilar from

  1. Groovy
  2. Ruby
  3. Smalltalk
  4. Clojure
  5. TCL

All statements

  1. I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
  2. This is a low level language
  3. I would use this language for writing embedded programs
  4. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  5. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
  6. I use many applications written in this language
  7. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  8. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  9. This language is likely to be around for a very long time
  10. Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
  11. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
  12. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  13. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  14. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  15. This language has a high quality implementation
  16. This is a mainstream language
  17. This language is minimal
  18. This language is good for numeric computing
  19. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  20. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  21. There are many good open-source tools for this language
  22. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  23. I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
  24. There are many good tools for this language
  25. This language is good for scientific computing
  26. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  27. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  28. I know this language well
  29. I know many other people who use this language
  30. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  31. I would use this language to write a command-line app
  32. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  33. It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
  34. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  35. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  36. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  37. I would use this language for mobile applications
  38. I would list this language on my resume
  39. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  40. This language is well documented
  41. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  42. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  43. This language has a strong static type system
  44. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  45. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  46. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  47. This language has a very coherent design
  48. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  49. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  50. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  51. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  52. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  53. I would use this language for writing server programs
  54. This language is good for distributed computing
  55. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  56. Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
  57. This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity
  58. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  59. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  60. This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
  61. This language is best for very large projects
  62. This language has a niche in which it is great
  63. I regularly use this language
  64. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  65. This language excels at concurrency
  66. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  67. This language has a very dogmatic community
  68. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  69. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  70. I usually use this language on solo projects
  71. I use this language out of choice
  72. This language has an annoying syntax
  73. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  74. Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
  75. If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
  76. This language is best for very small projects
  77. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  78. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  79. This language has a good community
  80. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  81. I enjoy using this language
  82. This language is good for beginners
  83. I find code written in this language very elegant
  84. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  85. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  86. When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
  87. This language is very flexible
  88. This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
  89. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  90. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  91. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  92. Code written in this language is very readable
  93. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  94. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  95. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  96. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  97. This language is large
  98. I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
  99. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  100. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  101. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  102. I would use this language for casual scripting
  103. This language excels at text processing
  104. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  105. I find this language easy to prototype in
  106. I would use this language for a web project
  107. This language is expressive
  108. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  109. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  110. This language is likely to be a passing fad
  111. This is a high level language