programming languages

Rank

REBOL

Based on 567 responses from 45 people, this is the picture we've built up of REBOL.

Most similar to...

  1. Scheme
  2. Io
  3. Factor
  4. Clojure
  5. Standard ML

Most dissimilar from...

  1. Java
  2. C++
  3. C
  4. C#
  5. Fortran

All statements

  1. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  2. I enjoy using this language
  3. This language has a very coherent design
  4. This language is likely to be a passing fad
  5. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  6. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  7. I find code written in this language very elegant
  8. This language is minimal
  9. This language has a good community
  10. This language is very flexible
  11. I would use this language for writing server programs
  12. This language is expressive
  13. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  14. This language excels at text processing
  15. This language is good for distributed computing
  16. This is a high level language
  17. I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
  18. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  19. This language is good for beginners
  20. I would use this language for casual scripting
  21. I usually use this language on solo projects
  22. Code written in this language is very readable
  23. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
  24. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  25. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  26. I would use this language for a web project
  27. I would use this language to write a command-line app
  28. Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
  29. I would list this language on my resume
  30. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  31. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  32. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  33. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  34. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  35. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  36. I regularly use this language
  37. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  38. This language has a niche in which it is great
  39. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  40. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  41. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  42. I use this language out of choice
  43. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  44. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  45. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  46. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  47. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  48. I find this language easy to prototype in
  49. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  50. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  51. If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
  52. I know this language well
  53. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
  54. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  55. Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
  56. This language has a high quality implementation
  57. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  58. Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
  59. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  60. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  61. I would use this language for mobile applications
  62. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  63. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  64. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  65. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  66. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  67. This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
  68. This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
  69. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  70. This language has a strong static type system
  71. I know many other people who use this language
  72. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  73. I use many applications written in this language
  74. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  75. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  76. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  77. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  78. This language is well documented
  79. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  80. There are many good open-source tools for this language
  81. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  82. This is a low level language
  83. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  84. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  85. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  86. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  87. This language is large
  88. This language has an annoying syntax
  89. There are many good tools for this language
  90. This language is likely to be around for a very long time
  91. This is a mainstream language