REBOL

Based on 390 responses from 42 people, we've built up the following picture of REBOL

Most similar to

  1. ActionScript
  2. Io
  3. Factor
  4. Scheme
  5. Prolog

Most dissimilar from

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

All statements

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