Pascal

Based on 15106 responses from 1704 people, we've built up the following picture of Pascal

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. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  6. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  7. This language is likely to be a passing fad
  8. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  9. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  10. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  11. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  12. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  13. Code written in this language is very readable
  14. This language has a very coherent design
  15. If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
  16. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  17. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  18. Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
  19. This is a low level language
  20. This language is minimal
  21. When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
  22. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  23. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  24. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  25. This language has a very dogmatic community
  26. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  27. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
  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 often get angry when writing code in this language
  36. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  37. This language has an annoying syntax
  38. Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
  39. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  40. This language is best for very large projects
  41. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  42. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  43. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  44. I would use this language to write a command-line app
  45. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  46. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  47. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  48. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  49. This language is good for scientific computing
  50. I find this language easy to prototype in
  51. I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
  52. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  53. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  54. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  55. I know this language well
  56. This is a high level language
  57. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  58. This language is best for very small projects
  59. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  60. This language is well documented
  61. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  62. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  63. This language is large
  64. I would use this language for mobile applications
  65. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  66. Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
  67. I enjoy using this language
  68. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  69. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  70. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  71. This language has a high quality implementation
  72. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  73. I would use this language for writing server programs
  74. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  75. I use this language out of choice
  76. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  77. This language excels at concurrency
  78. This language excels at text processing
  79. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  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. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  97. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  98. This language is very flexible
  99. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  100. I know many other people who use this language
  101. I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
  102. There are many good open-source tools for this language
  103. This language has a good community
  104. This is a mainstream language
  105. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  106. I use many applications written in this language
  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