Scheme

Based on 34041 responses from 2656 people, we've built up the following picture of Scheme

Most similar to

  1. Smalltalk
  2. Io
  3. Standard ML
  4. Lua
  5. Clojure

Most dissimilar from

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

All statements

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