programming languages

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Pascal

Based on 17481 responses from 1760 people, this is the picture we've built up of Pascal.

Most similar to...

  1. Delphi
  2. Cobol
  3. Standard ML
  4. Eiffel
  5. Fortran

Most dissimilar from...

  1. Perl
  2. Javascript
  3. Ruby
  4. Python
  5. Scala

All statements

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