Scheme
Based on 34041 responses from 2656 people, we've built up the following picture of Scheme
Ranked high for:
- This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
- This language has a very coherent design
- This language is minimal
- This language would be good for teaching children to write software
- I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
- This language excels at symbolic manipulation
- I find code written in this language very elegant
- Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
- I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
- The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
Ranked low for:
- This language is large
- This is a mainstream language
- This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
- This language is unusually bad for beginners
- I use many applications written in this language
- I know many other people who use this language
- There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
- Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
- There are many good commercial tools for this language
- I usually use this language on projects with many other members
All statements
- This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
- This language has a very coherent design
- This language is minimal
- This language would be good for teaching children to write software
- I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
- This language excels at symbolic manipulation
- I find code written in this language very elegant
- Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
- I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
- The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
- This language is good for beginners
- Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
- This language is very flexible
- This language is expressive
- I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
- I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
- I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
- This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
- This is a high level language
- This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
- I enjoy using this language
- This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
- Code written in this language tends to be terse
- I find this language easy to prototype in
- I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
- This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
- This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
- The resources for learning this language are of high quality
- This language is best for very small projects
- I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
- When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
- If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
- I use this language out of choice
- Code written in this language is very readable
- I would use this language for casual scripting
- This language has a very dogmatic community
- This language encourages writing reusable code.
- It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
- Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
- I usually use this language on solo projects
- It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
- This language is good for distributed computing
- I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
- I would use this language for writing embedded programs
- It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
- I would use this language for mobile applications
- This language is good for scientific computing
- This language has a good community
- This language is good for numeric computing
- This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
- This language has a high quality implementation
- This language is likely to be around for a very long time
- This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
- This language has a niche in which it is great
- This language excels at concurrency
- If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
- I would use this language for a web project
- This language is well documented
- I would use this language to write a command-line app
- Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
- This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity
- This language excels at text processing
- I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
- It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
- This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
- I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
- This language is likely to be a passing fad
- This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
- I would use this language for writing server programs
- There are many good open-source tools for this language
- I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
- I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
- Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
- I often get angry when writing code in this language
- I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
- I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
- Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
- I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
- I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
- I know this language well
- This language is best for very large projects
- There are many good tools for this language
- This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
- Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
- This language has an annoying syntax
- This is a low level language
- This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
- This language is suitable for real-time applications
- I regularly use this language
- I would list this language on my resume
- Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
- I can imagine using this language in my day job
- Code written in this language tends to be verbose
- Writing code in this language is a lot of work
- Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
- This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
- The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
- When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
- There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
- This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
- This language has a strong static type system
- I usually use this language on projects with many other members
- There are many good commercial tools for this language
- Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
- There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
- I know many other people who use this language
- I use many applications written in this language
- This language is unusually bad for beginners
- This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
- This is a mainstream language
- This language is large